Zombie + leech works fine so far. I think a lot of the old bugs were fixed a patch or two ago on the old game as I did a small test run of DOS using almost the same build I am not without running into the above mentioned bugs. It's just hard to find poison and bleeding options. I found a few random poison flasks and I found enough mushrooms to poison 4 things of food so I certainly have limited options so far. Maybe there is some more crafting stuff I'm missing. I didn't craft a lot in the old game at all.

It seems like rogue was given bleed and poison options under scoundrel so I may have to roll some support companions with those. Magical poison dart is a level 6 skill now and the witch bleed is gone so I'm kind of hurting for surfaces. I'm doing all the Cyseal dialogue now so hopefully the zombie fights will net me enough resources and levels so I can function outside of poison areas. Hopefully my 2 main blood knight and 2 water mages to handle fire control will synergize the way i need them to. Then again my companion NPC just broke so who knows now lol.