I'm going to wait until the patch notes have been released, until I make any judgements. But it seems they may of fixed Arcane Ward. It was stated that the HP bonus will be 2x level + Intelligence bonus. That's a definite improvement for the Abjurer subclass. Hopefully the Ward stacks with temp HP as well. The handling of the Abjurer was my #1 concern. So yeah ... maybe.
Now if they would change height high/ low to a +2/ -2 bonus, backstab to a flanking bonus (maybe +1), implement Dodge, separate Jump and Disengage, and add my preferred subclasses; I would be very happy with this game.