While the solutions presented are there, to use rain to remove hazards and such, the end of combat ticks is still an issue. As half the time I find Madora is somehow standing in fire so I rush to click and hold to move the party away and off of hazards, by the time that happens Madora has a slim chance of living and not roasting.
Simply stepping in a hot patch and moving further wipes out more than half health, if not all of it, my game was basically 3 mages and a warrior. The healing spell takes the mentioned 2-3 ticks before a spell can finally be cast, so trying to start out with that is pointless because then they'd die while standing in fire before I can do squat. Outside of combat. Speaking of which though, outside of combat and taking a step together may be more damage than what it should be intended as, as it's about half a second before Madora and my friend take 1-2 different sets of damage at a time.
Removing hazards Removing hazards don't always work, I mentioned in first post, some hazards tend to linger and do not leave, trying to remove them becomes impossible because there's no ice spell readily available at level 1 and Cylia may not sell the spells needed to ice terrain. Not early enough in the game. However the resulting issue from such are:
fire/steam clouds which cannot be removed, poison clouds which cannot be removed, fire that cannot be removed, and patches so small you don't even see it, before you blindly walk in to that one (un)lucky spot and burn to death before you can look back to see what even got you, let alone get a potion or healing spell set.
I like the idea of resurrecting at a different place, because so many other scrolls have been wasted trying to resurrect while standing in place but fail because they're still standing in a steam or fire patch of some sorts, they respawn and before anything even happens, you hear a second death cry and they fall over again. To make the spell simpler though, the targeted person, without having to be near them if possible, resurrects near the caster, more like an angel from the sky I suppose as it'd be less hassle, and a lot less work than wasting several scrolls before having to go to end of time and back and catch up to where you left off with even more traps now in your way...