No, the increased wpf costs are here precisely because people were getting silly wpf.
Now as a pure you have more gold (to pay for upkeep for better stuff), somewhat more wpf, and in most cases more skill points as well. Don't make it sound like all that is nothing.
@ Bruce, IMO pre patch people were getting silly WPP because of retirement adding a bonus to it. Allowing people to stack a lot of WPP once they had retired a few times, thus negating the penalty of WPP of armors and being able to swing godly speeds in full plate.
As a pure I have 8 WM giving me 174 in 2h
as a hybrid melee/thrower I have 6 WM 150 in 2h, 50 in throwing
there is very little gain for the extra WM I put into 2h if I had more knowledge about the WPP system at the time it would have been more efficient to hybrid than specialize.
As a hybrid melee/archer at level 31 I will have 8 WM 135 in 2h, 134 in archery
I really don't mind that it is better to hybrid than specialize, I think that this is how it should be, soldiers should be trained to handle different situations. Not so much, rock beats scissors, paper beats rock, scissors beats paper.
my specialized character has 3 more attribute points more than the hybrids aswell so think about that too.
IMO Hybrids have the advantage in total skill points & total WPP where as Specialized have the advantage of total attributes and a high level in the skills they did specialize in, low level in the skills they for-go on there way to specializing AGI or STR or balanced some what inbetween.