Based on the what I know now, which of course can and will change when they tweak it, the plan is to up the active skills and leave passive skills alone. Essentially increasing the offense side (stomp, firestorm, blast) which will make defense a pain since those skills ( evades, iron bloods, debuffs) are currently not planned to improve. Seems like a this is going to take some of the strategy out at first as people will just be booming, especially as twinks who have to be very selective in their skill choice.