Personally, I don't really care which powers come first (it;ll probably begin with the 'ol standby fire, though) provided they're all available... and hopefully not as spread out as they were in the second game :s

They should be spread out enough so that you can get a good amount of gems into it before another one arrives and makes you need to use more.

I prefer abilities semi-spread, but semi-close, so that I can pump firepower into most of them pretty well.

well, cannot be shure about that, in all tLoS game fire is first, but cannot know.I think that fire is first again.Why that earth can't be first?!ofcourse it can be, but i think fire is still first.

You didn't read my post, did you? The very first thing I say is

"I mean after fire! Fire is obviously first."

In all the screen shots the only two powers we've seen are earth and fire, which kind of led me to believe this. Since we see no other powers, I think earth comes after fire.

Also in the last two games, in ANB you got electricity after fire and in TEN got ice after fire so it only seems sensible you'd get earth first now.

If you're saying you've never seen Spyro with earth powers, go look at the screen shots again. I know I saw at least one where Spyro had it set on earth power. It was a little green leaf in his "you're using this power" bubble.

For Cynder, I have no idea. I've only seen her with poison in her "this power" bubble.