Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-28745050-20160614060931/@comment-26018514-20160728055221

ChishioKunrin wrote: Ember Celica wrote: Chisio has spoken! On the topic of the whole Writer's lying, im pretty sure they said Blake's weapon would be getting an upgrade during v3. I hope that it's still gonna happen and was only pushed back to v4 >.< I remember that tweet. Someone was trying to make a cosplay replica of Gambol Shroud and tweeted their frustration, and Monty tweeted them "lolol you should see what I have planned for its season 3 upgrade." It could've been pushed to volume 4, maybe later depending on how much space the new Maidens thing takes up.

Timestamp on that twitter post:

"3 Nov 2013"

If I'm not mistaken that puts it somewhere at Season one development/creation to the start of Season 2 Storyboards. If I recall the decision to push back was stated as some time after the first 2-4 episodes of Season 2, and I believe they said Season 3 episode(6?) was the original season 2 ending while episode (9?) was a mid-season finale and so the assumptions we can draw are:

1. that tweet definitively predates that decision 2. That the upgrade was either part of or post time-skip