@ Hiver: Sorry for the rambling post last night. My issue lies mostly with how brutal poison/fire damage can be at the moment. When it is coupled with CC from the enemy it becomes very hard to deal with very quickly. Even without CC, it is still very powerful. Perhaps it should be this way, but it is quite alarming to see my tankiest character go down to 20-40 HP before she can even act.

On the food note I completely missed that somehow. I had no idea eating an apple would bestow poison resistance. Chalk it up to needing to explore the game more, but that still seems bizarre to me. At the very least it is not very intuitive to eat things to increase resistances. Some sort of scroll or potion I would understand. Food usually just restores health. If this is all part of design perhaps it should be included more clearly in a tutorial.