I feel like Elves are more in line with what the Racial balance should have been, and I think that the other races need to be buffed to compete with the Elves; who are still quite good.
This is basically my opinion. The change to remove the +2 to an attribute and instead give each race one special Talent and one +1 Civil Ability did a good deal to bring the races more in line with each other.
The change to Dwarves from +2 Strength to +10% Health and +5% Evasion really worked, it's useful for most classes, but in particular to fighters and rogues. Petrifying Touch needs a buff though, I think that decreasing the AP cost to 1 would do. Possibly removing the scratch damage it does so it could be a desperate move to save or clear status effects from a teammate might also be interesting.
Lizards new special is merely okay. Fire Breath seems to scale better than it did in EA, but I still would have loved Shed Skin instead.
Humans are low tier, largely due to the changes to Wits and Initiative. The low bonus from Encourage and its very slow scaling is also in drastic need of a look at.
