To be fair, hammers did get a buff, which was needed.
Dunno, kinda feels like some more skills need to be pushed down into the novice tree, maybe one for each weapon? Novice in general is super dull and you don't hit level 10 until the end of the demo's content unless you grind. Staves kinda fall into that same issue because they're dull to fight with until you've got the charged shot from the magic class.