So I'm at the very beginning of the game and am having issues with friendly fire and secondary effects. For example, my melee fighters almost always seem to be stuck in a pool of blood, effectively negating my mage's default electrical attack. Fine you say, move them out of the pool. But then they waste AP and attract attacks of opportunity...
In my most recent battle, my summoner managed to summon an incarnate from a fire on the battlefield. Great, right? Not quite. The thing's ranged attack turned out to be a fireball and set the whole battlefield on fire. And of course I didn't have a Rain spell to extinguish the blaze.
So it seems I may need to rethink my party composition and strategy, which is fairly difficult given I don't know the magic system or how the various abilities/spells synergize.
TL;DR What are some good classes and strategies for a clueless noob to help him avoid killing his own party?