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Me, I'm always the coward in these RPG, but I play W8 in "Normal". It's hard in the beginning, but after a while it gets better.
One more hint: When your spell casters level, you may save their spell picks for higher levels. It is quite useful to do this, since you can find many books in the game from which they can learn the lower and middle spells.