counterspelling/resource management

[Guest 4ward]

 

granted i‘m only at level 5 but i‘m curious whether there‘s counterspelling going on at higher levels (i‘m playing on potd). So far for me, Xoti's inspiration spells only exist on paper. Resolve reduces hostile effects and those effects aren‘t really worth countering so far, rather for me it‘s more like pillars1 trying to do as much dps as possible all the time. The long recovery times don‘t really encourage me either. Also, injuries and empower don‘t encourage me to rest really, haven‘t rested once. When one of my chars goes down i see it as a failure and reload, no incentive to carry on fighting with a knocked out char and rest after battle, i‘m alyways leaning to simply reload, my stash is crowded with food. Empower doesn‘t really give incentive to rest either so far, since i simply switch to weapons instead. Does that change later in the game?