
Creativity, mostly. The Runestone is frequented by people using magic to a lot of creative degrees; In the first night there I saw rolling flame wheels, knives made of ice and conjured lava waterfalls. All of it made perfect sense in the "manipulating the elements" sort of style.
Thaumaturge curses, though, are probably chalked up to that damned 1.0 split. You can see what the class used to be capable of here and using filters you can see all of the old attacks for all classes. 1.0 THM was a much different beast. 1.0 CNJ, too. Technically speaking, Arcanist is vastly improved from what it was in 1.0 as well.
Thaumaturge curses, though, are probably chalked up to that damned 1.0 split. You can see what the class used to be capable of here and using filters you can see all of the old attacks for all classes. 1.0 THM was a much different beast. 1.0 CNJ, too. Technically speaking, Arcanist is vastly improved from what it was in 1.0 as well.