Oh yeah, i have the exact same feeling about Tactician difficulty. Ennemies with +50% Hp, 50% Physical AND Magical armor, +50% damage, is way too high. The damage spikes are ridiculous, and every fight i did took me hours to success.
The early game especially is pretty hard, since you start totally naked.
I installed a Mod called "Easier tactician mode" or something like that, wich tuned down a bit the stat increase from mob. 20% instead of 50%.
The game is way more enjoyable like this, but sadly i wont unlock any success anymore. Well, when i see some mods available, i understand why they did this, but a single option like Reducing the difficulty would have been good. Still, now that i've found some stuff, i've had some fight i found easy even with +20% bonus. But i know things will change soon :)