After some thinking, I think that wits is now very importent for every char because of initiative. When speed is gone this is the only way to increase it. To CC or even kill enemies before they can act makes things much easier. In D:OS1 your team almost always acted before the enemy because speed was useful for every char.
Except that likely is also no longer much of a thing. The same update has also confirmed the existence of Physical and Magical armor which must be depleted before status effects can take place. So gone are the days of going first, stunning everything and then cleaning up the stragglers.
Wits might become the new Speed, but I'm not so sure that (even with a possible increased amount of attributes per level up) most classes will be able to spread out to raising 3+ attributes to decent levels without crippling their power. But we shall have to see.
