I find it curious that so man people complain about the last patch. I play on classic as well and I don't see much differenece between the last 2 patches in therms of difficulty.
Sure there are some hard fights like the group of magister in the prision-cells or the voidwoken deep dweller. But those were hard before and just still are.
Now what I DID notice is that fights take significant longer then they did in earlier patches. Getting rid of magic and physical armor takes so much time and regulary puts all my skills on CD. Simply for the fact that I don't do any real damage or CC if their armor is still up.
That is quite stupid and combat did get a little more boring because of this decision.
