Some more impressions:
- I can't buy mana potions anywhere anymore. This makes playing a wizard before you get the battle tower much less fun.
- Being able to dodge arrows is useless, since stun/poison/explosive arrows still home in like missiles.
Have you checked with the priest that gives the quest Lovis's Loot? He had a lot in D2:ED.
I've checked all merchants in the broken valley village: None of them sell potions anymore.
I suppose less potions but mega powerful weapons balance each other out.