class difference!

[Loopy]

Have you seen the Viking unique skill Absolute Rage? Holy crap that thing looks powerful. 50% chance for +25% attack bonus every hit, 2x critical chance on counter attacks, +50% crit damage? This is like a potential 3x your maximum damage range on every counter attack, and +50% crit damage alone will be great for any kind of ranged attack build. I mean Higher Magic is pretty damn awesome, but this comes close.

Soothsayers get Creation. I can't overstate how powerful this is. In AP we had Magic light (+% to healing, pretty bad overall) and summoner (+% to summoning, VERY nice). Now Creation does both, along with all other non-combat spells, AND gives increased duration. As far as I can tell so far it works on _everything_ non-combat, including spells and parts of spells that don't normally get boosts from intellect. Stone Skin at +52%? Hell yes. Blind for 4 turns? Yum. Even on those skills where intellect worked before it's still the equivalent of +40 intellect as far as making spells last longer, which is insane.

What does Skald have? A resurrect that works randomly, which you shouldn't need most of the time, and which can be done on your own? Not really worth my time IMO. Edda is just kind of meh for everything except undead, where it provides mana (that you don't really need at the beginning of battle) and rage (which warrior already has more of and uses better).

I think it's very well balanced now. Skald skills just aren't that great. Outside of your started skills all you really have to look forward to in your tree is some +crit and +morale. Skald was simply by far the weakest class in TL and still much weaker in AP. They needed these buffs. With the sadly constrained first island Skald may have an advantage in no-lossing, but outside of that I think the other classes have a much more exponential power climb.