I like to add that later in the game a melee fight can be pretty much invulnerable against all elements. My melee fighter on level 16 has both resitancies for fire and water above 100% which means that he is healed by water or fire! Air and earth resistancies are at about 90% and poison + tenebrium resistancies are at about 70%. Combined with a high armour class and enough points in body building, willpower he is pretty much the king of the battlefield. He loves standing in AoE fire effects for example and he crushes whole groups of enemies with whirlwind, attacks of opportunity and flurry...
