With backstab providing advantage gone, I'm actually looking forward to playing melee classes again.

The super mario meta was too repetitive in the decision making the player had. Fighter now has actual choices to make with the changes to disengage and backstab. Rogue is also more valuable, and offers a contrast to fighter and ranger.

Fighter and ranger should have never been getting backstab advantage to begin with.

There are a lot of gameplay/balance changes in this patch, so I'm going to replay the whole EA with an open mind.