I played 1.03 for some time now.
All classes through difficulty 5, after deleting my save.
A few thoughts: the stabby melee weapons are still better than the swinging ones.
The new items are somewhat cool(the one repairing outfit durability scaled by healing is op), but some are hard to work with.
Breaking the outfit means taking damage. So you need to get armor, health, healing and bloodsucking up. Limits your level up choices.
My major complaint is more on the shop choices tho. I would prefer it, if it would show more weapons scaling with the stats you choose, with class and level ups and items suitable for you.
It sucks to go in with the archer and to get burn focused items.