Hmm... ok... Is it just my impression or do most of the people who think "combats are fine / exciting" have rather physical-heavy (str/dex) parties while the ones who think "combat is boring / slow" have rather magic-heavy (int) parties?
I mean, I already had the suspicioun that mages might have a rather too high survivability and too low DPS in endgame (I thought it would be the opposite and took 2 mages specificly because I wanted to have fast but hard/dangerous combats and in early game it seemed to work out exactly like that

)... but how extreme is the difference?