IMO the slots requirement is really great, for the longbow buff I find it gives the LB a purpose cuz before it was not worth it compared to warbow so these are the good things I saw beside the nice website theme and all.
Things that suck:
On the other end, I'm a pure polearmer and I find the new stab animation too fast and just wierd. I know it's new and all but its really just too fast right now it's pretty much the new lolstabbing. I can own so easily with my poleaxe by just poking around. And by the look of it, I was on siege and it became the new ez-lolstab fest it was not cool when I was doing it or receiving it.
Also, this other thing is totally breaking the game: the new upkeep. I was for 2 maps ALWAYS on 5x and even at 5x all the time, with a total value of my gear around 25 840 gold (was written on the website itself), I LOST 12k DURING THOSE 2 MAPS! This is just too much. Also with the bonus xp nerf, I don't understand why nerf this? At gen 9, im currently doing 6.2k of xp per tick at 5x when I was doing 9k like 4 hours ago! This is ridiculous... I feel like the time I spent playing did not really give me an advantage over the new players.
IMO, in resumé, the patch killed the fun of "older players" with the xp bonus nerf, it makes playing with decent gear impossible and just transformed polearms into lolstabmachines.