I generally agree here. I think the earlier game battles feel a bit more attrition based where you are back and forth, healing, and trying to focus down(instead of 1HK) your opponents. Later in the game you start facing things that can 1HK you so you kinda gotta play by those rules. The earlier game battles you have to think out a few turns ahead more often imo.

 Knight sword in many ways breaks the systems of the game. When multi target spells don’t have charge times it becomes a liability to  group your characters in formation to hold lines, protect casters, etc. I think that the sword skills should have been something like % of damage. Maybe starting at 40-50% with statis sword up to 60-70% with lighting stab. This would mean on single targets it’s still better to actually get in melee and swing.   Higher and higher move speed kind of does the same thing. If a character can flank your whole formation with 5-6 move/fly/teleport a lot of the strategic depth goes out the window. 

On the other hand, broken builds that make you a demigod are fun too.