My thoughts ... eventhough i doubt there are many people who think like me xD
1:PRO) i like the patch in terms of the pure change ... change is always good ... its good for me, to reawake my interrest; the community, to have something new to cry about; for the devs, to have something to show off and show the game is still active
2:CON) patch is to big. It should have been released more incrementally .. to many things to fix at once, to many destorted opinions to make sense of it balance-wise ... until things settle in and real new meta-gameplay shows its face. Half the amount of changes might even already have been to much for one patch ...
3:PRO) i like the patch to be released in a not all perfectly worked out state, instead released early. It makes me feel more like part of a dynamic,living process than just being end-consumer in a static and dictated gameplay.
4:PRO) new 2h stab (cathegory: welcomed change) looks pretty good to me ... still need to work out how to use it properly. I despise most of the instant reactions ... when noone yet had the time to adapt to this huge change. Its a good start and i would not mind seeing this animation in MBG instead of the old one ...
5:MISC) new items look mostly shiny ... i sadly dont really dig the new Pilgrim Disguise tho .. its high resulution parts dont fit well with the rest imo ... should be balanced design-wise (I dont run the game in high resulutioni tho, and it looks possibly good on higher settings)