Net suffered some kind of problem because everyone it seems was knocked out of their games. So I am taking a few minutes before getting back and trying some more. I'll try to put down as many of my impressions as possible. First, off the improvements that have been made are very good. All very cool and very helpful additions.
Socketable armor is also very nice.
My impressions so far are that the Druid seems much more fun to play than the Assassin. The skill tree for the Druid appears to have more worthwhile and so far there is nothing better than shape-changing into a werewolf or bear and running around tearing monsters up. Also the summoning abilities are really cool. The problem may be that I just have not found my Assassin's particular strength yet. I used traps somewhat but probably need to develop some sort of better strategy with them.