I was worried they'd make some stupid changes and they really did. Soul memory for co-op/pvp? Really?
They changed backstabbing which I am neutral on, it's now much harder to pull off so all the complainers are probably happy. And poise almost matters nothing in pvp which I don't mind since it feels like DS, all the poise stacking backstab fishers are probably pretty sad about that though. A lot of the magic is disappointingly boring to use. I miss the days when mages were fun to play in DS, and took actual skill from pivot/toggle casting and chaining combos.