Agree, was pretty disappointed about seeing the new items so fast, but at the same time enticed. Anyway, the best way to talk to the npc is just to press V (or shift+V) and try to home in on his hp bar. It's real hard though cause all bars move like hell.

That's how it looks most of the time.
There's some pretty neat new stuff though, like a phoenix-something tank cloak, some badass 42 stamina ring with def and dodge I think. And I hear Shamans get rejuvenation gem

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One of the new healing trinkets are passive 40 healing and 300spirit for 20 sec on Use. And plenty more stuff, gonna see if I can get screens of some stuff tomorrow if it's not old news by then.
Edit: Little addendum, sucks that you can't buy blue gems from a vendor, I got lower stats on PTR than on Live, like 800 less hp, thanks to those bloody white +6sta gems
