it should of course depend entirely on the opening. but if it has a similar opening as BG, then starting out with a spoon and working your way up to a fork and a butterknife is fine by me
for me, dragons should be extremely hard opponents. in baldur's gate, our characters were still to inexperienced to tackle dragons. only in baldur's gate II did our characters get experienced enough to be able fight them. my point is, should our characters become that powerful in the first PE game?
in the recent interview at gamebanshee.com i read that "Healing magic of any sort is extraordinarily rare" and resurrection is non-existent. but isn't this one of the main functions of the priest class?