What about the one talent that lets you avoid FEAR? I got tired of having my team running away so I finally just picked it for all of them.
You can get immunity to fear from the trait "Spiritual" ... no need to waste a talent point on this (for your main characters).
Leech (I don't know if it worth 1 talent, can I really heal enough over my own blood? )
With enough armor the amount of healing is greater than the amount of damage you received. On other characters (with less armor, like a mage) the amount of damage reduction is also remarkable. Also you can easily heal back to full health in one round by casting "bloodletting" on your character (
video). The skills "draw blood" and "lacerate" have also great synergies with the leech talent. In combination with "comeback kid" you also can not be killed by physical attacks. Because of "comeback kid" you are reduced to 1 HP and the next attack would kill you, but "leech" heals some HP so that on the next attack "comback kid" also applies (
video).