Hi! Thanks for the coffee post!
There's a lot all wrapped up in here. I won't be able to respond to a lot of it for a variety of reasons (plans aren't firm, don't want to announce stuff buried in the comment of a random post, not my place to talk about, and more!), but let's see what I can talk about. I'm going to break from your ordering because I think about things differently, so I hope that's okay!
Balance / progression
It shouldn't be especially surprising that there are changes coming to a lot of the stuff you (and others) have mentioned as well as some things you haven't. I don't want to talk about them in any detail since they're still subject to change but Recovery, Pyro, Frostborn (whaaaaat?!), Tempest, lightning, ice, stone, and a bunch of other things are being touched in a variety of ways next release.
As for progression, yeah, I feel you. Prologue was intended to be easy/fast but coming out at the same...
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