With the BETA 1.30 update new Chiming Tree Upgrades have been released. There is one particularly questionable upgrade that may be a frustrating addition to speedruns. The one I am talking about is "Persistent Blessing".

What is Persistent Blessing? I'll give you the description straight from the game:

[quote]"Allows you to start a run with a random Blood Blessing from the previous run, providing that you found at least 3 Blessings during your previous run."[/quote]

The key words here being random and previous run. This means that you will have to set up each and every attempt in advance and sometimes you will not get the Blessing you want anyways. This is particularly egregious for Any% since going into Blood Altars are generally seen as time consuming. You may or may not get the Blessings you want during your dummy runs anyways.

In order for speedruns to not be so frustrating it is perhaps in our best interest to not allow this upgrade to be used in runs. However, as per speedrunning community unspoken rules this will be decided with the community.

For now it is banned for speedruns, but if you feel like this rule should be changed we encourage you to give your thoughts here or on the Discord server: https://discord.gg/8cGDwUe