I did my meditation as a wizard wearing the armour and the flat shield. I finished my full meditation as an rogue level 1 who stabbed I 15 times Dark And Darker Gold. I retreated and shot him. Is that "fair"? Or "fun". He didn't have the power to kill me , because I was on a body which he could not cut with dagger and the character was blocking his body from the way up. He literally had nothing but chest shots he could hit. He was stabbed at me for about 4 or 5 seconds. I ended up having 70% health. Pretty sure a green health pot would have the healing. Instead, they can give them an blue short sword. they'll 1 tap barbarians.

Other than cheaters, netcode, etc. that hard wired are fixed in release issues, Damage scaling has to be more consistent to defense scale. At present, damage scaling is quadratic, exponential, and uncoordinated.

Health and armor don't even get close to the level to justify how large the amount of damage can be. This creates an enormous gap in the base classes.

Wizards and Rogues aren't able to fight mobs. Barbarians may one tap players. To large a gap.

A very good source of information here.

There's some very good incite here my friend. But there are also lots of things you may have missed. It would take some time to break it into segments and debate some more specific issues. So will will just address my thoughts as a whole with reference to wizards and rogue that you decide to focus on.

You've pointed out some details about wizards that are factual. But I can also tell you aren't super experienced with the wizard. Chain lightning is more then practical. In a aoe perspective. It only jumps X number of enemies. The enemies in question are closer to one another than you. They don't strike you. It's different based on the circumstances.
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