is there anything better now? i dont see a thing. sure, hol is way more expensive, but all i can see after the patch is the following:
- more connection issues (takes very long to get a custom game starting)
- still lobby bugs with people being in a different slot than the screen is showing
- favor items have to be bought all over again
- framerates are dropping very low some times! (but get better 1min ater..)
- my characters get stuck all the time or abort movement when i active skills or items
- alt tab is crashing the game even more now, almost always
- unhandled exceptions when starting a custom game, damn often (almost always by now)!!! followed by invalid user error, while trying to log in (some mates even cant get the game closed in this situations, neither with ctrl+alt+del, nor with alt+f4) <--- makes the game unplayable! (i add: this happens EVERY GAME now, even in singleplayer!!)
- games not counting in the statistics after playing a custom game
- ui bugs all the time (radius missing, not casting swarms)
- the statistics page and forum is annoying slow... feels like you are running all game related issues on a pentium 1 with a 1mbit connection??
- i even got a worse ping to my mate now 
haven´t tried pantheon or skirmish yet...
sry if i HAVE TO say this, but this patch sucks big time! all got worse and nothing better!
what kind of patch is this?!? just wondering...