Agreed. I would revert all the bone necro, zon dodge and assassin dmg buffs too along with Druid summoning multiple pets since none of that was remotely necessary.
Yes, the bone necro change was strighly towards pvm. And even with those bone skills still sucks for pvm.
Zon dodge is due to fucking up the stun/desync/wsg system. So not needed if game would act as d2lod.
Summoning all druid pets at once was also a pvm feature which directly impact pvp.
The good changes was:
Less delays on druid fire skills.
The good changes on barb throwing skills was less/none quanti use, and improved throw damage, but its all ruined by lack of wsm bug. Even with use of 3bo metamoprhosis and beast offhand to gain 25 EIAS boost and 20% Dr my d2lod throwbarb would put d2r throwbarb in the trash.
The good changes for fury/wolf etc was ar increase. Metamorphosis is a nice feature, but hard to gain any form of frw/fcr/ar bonus.
Other than that, the bear was destroyed. Rabies is useless and its very vulnerable to slow.
Barbs wirl became very vulnerable to slow. Since leap got so heavy nerfed due to stun functions people do get more berserk damage though. But barb has less defense due to lack of shout boosts. So barb has good and bad changes, but not needed. The throwbarb needed upgrade, but due to lack of wsm the build is worse...
My bugbelt covered the 20% DR metamorphosis adds. And my 700damage ghost glaives covers the skillbuffing done, and the wsm bug covers the attackspeed bonus from metamoprhosis, and valk 08 covers the fcr/fhr/runspeed/ias....
D2:R