You are right about that everything feels very much the same, but we have to remember this is still some kind of beta. Things are unbalanced and we knew (or at least I knew) this was going to happen. Since it is impossible to balance a game when it is live.

Blizzard made this same mistake just before the last two expansions came out. Especially just before Cataclysm the whole world was a mess, because they patched the game with some expansions related data before the expansion was even out. The whole balance was gone and it was not fixed until the expansion was released.

We are having the same problem right now. They are balancing stuff, they are changing stuff, they are adding stuff, they are removing stuff. Since we want patches and we want them fast we will have periods like this until the games final (and gets Pay to Play).