I've never really paid attention to loketests before. Who's imput does Arcsys listen to when making the changes?
Anyway, it doesn't bode well for Tao. Some of her more damaging combos came from 6c, and that was about 4-5k, taunts excluded. It was high risk too, so there's no reason to take that away, really. Same goes for j.2d.
Noel is just disheartening. I still have hopes for the final changes, though.