Recently Wizard City (mainly Tritan Avenue) received an update adding additional quests and changing the story. How will this affect the categories going forward?

I don't keep up with this game really at all but unless this is stated somewhere as an event, can confirm this is true after Unicorn Way, such a bummer. I planned on returning with new strats to Harvest Lord% and Wizard City% for the 20 and sub 1, but now with this update that is no longer a possibility, and I now have no intention to return to run this slower version of the game.

I have only bothered to test Triton Avenue which seems to be around 30 minutes, and Cyclops Lane which nothing is different besides the quick teleport to Akilles' tower which saves time, but obviously the new pet introduction still ruins the category and all the rest, I assume Firecat Alley is probably also untouched + the tower teleports, not sure about the post Olde Town streets stuff. In my opinion the best course of action to take with reshaping this leaderboard would be to implement subcategories, something along the lines of Legacy and Current, even though the recent runs before this update aren't so much considered legacy without the Lady Blackhope task and such which most runs on the board have, though that removed tasks from the taskline, this update introduces practically a new taskline for Triton Avenue and the pet introduction which is in all categories. As this update increases the time it takes to complete each street individually and altogether, they should be separated for future runners to do the categories with the new tasks and/or dumb pets introduction. All of Legacy would be considered "dead runs" just like Golem Court.

Regarding runs that now have longer times, all older runs for that category would likely become invalid as a result, because those times could now be impossible. So some categories may need to be reset as a result.

All categories are longer with the 2m+ pet introduction task now (Akilles and Alicane still can achieve times close to world record with tower teleports I assume). I see no reason to reset any categories when they can get the same treatment as Golem Court did, it hurts nothing and keeps the history of the previous runs, subcategories of Legacy and Current (can be argued to only put for Harvest and WC due to the large change of taskline in Triton Avenue) seem to easily fix this issue, there are many boards that have implemented a major update change like or similar to this including one I moderate. Considering this is the first time they've majorly changed the start of the game in a long time, I can't see the problem of having to change the leaderboard occur often.

Yeah legacy and current seems like the way to go, I agree with Tech's suggestion. We'll need to do some testing before implementing it, though.

Did some runs of General Akilles% yesterday and my current PB is 22:33 (4 minutes away from old version WR on a pretty good run, and 2 seconds better than my old version PB, but my old version PB was really really bad). I'd say it's probably best to change all categories into legacy and current.