It is pretty annoying to finally kill a super hard boss, get 3 orange items, and all 3 of those orange items are 2h crossbows for your mage / warrior.
Lately the game seems to have a hard on for dropping chest armour, I completed a full run through and got maybe 3 magic helmets ever, and was still wearing shitty cloth boots. I must have had over 200 blue or above chest armours drop, and had 3 orange ones sitting in my pack doing nothing.
I've done another full playthrough with just lone wolf, opposed to lonewolf + raistlin. The new change is fine. Its honestly not a big deal, since you have so much more HP due to lacking raistlin, you can pump points into speed instead and still have silly +AP per turn.