Montano is shield skill now, so it benefits from shield attack attributes (+shield def into attack) and Vakarine set (-20% CD and the damage increases, both the permanent one and the increased one upon blocking), so this is a great boost. Shield Push also changed to 5 levels only instead of 15 and reduced to 1 overheat with SFR compensations, while the damage increase debuff is increased from +15% to +25% but only works on strike skills now, so this is a great utility change IMO. Those two changes help him significantly. Shooting star conversion is down from 85% (arts + vaivora) to 20%, but it now has 100% final damage from vaivora, so I think it should be around the same spot. Rodelero is definitely the star of those changes. Murmillo is only better if you have the vaivora. Pelta should be slightly weaker damage-wise. Hoplite’s final damage effect still not restricted to pierce-type damage, right? If yes, than Hoplite should be better than Pelta, like rod-murm-hop with spear + shield and spear + dagger
Something I would like to point out is that murmillo’s vaivora lv4 effect has a 30s CD. I suppose that this CD is probably not affected by vakarine set CD reduction or CD reduction effects. Maybe even the damage dealt by the butterflies from this effect is not affected by vakarine set. Only future tests will answer those questions.