Eard, our resident gunner enthusiast has been recommending Elgoloth vindicator left and right the past couple of weeks in the discord, because it’s performing so splendidly
*that’s not the old one, because he was participating in the 9.6 test, so his recommendations was based off how the build was going to be when patch hit
so when he says it’s still plenty strong, i’m gonna buy that, and say the “nerfs” weren’t that bad, and attribute it to the usual case of what happens on patch day:
people see patch notes, read the words “reduced”, and they go all like 
(i even made comment about such thing in the meme corner 
)
anyways, gist of it is, don’t get so bogged up by patch notes, just play the darn game and have fun; your build still works splendidly 