Watch Your Positioning and Use the Environment
Divinity: Original Sin 2 Beginner’s Tips
When engaging your enemies in battle, make sure to space out your characters so that AoE attacks won’t damage your entire party in one go. You’ll want to keep an eye out for explosive barrels and nearby bodies of water too. A frozen ally should be moved somewhere warm immediately, as putting them near water will only slow down their recovery process. When using an AoE attack of your own, make sure that your allies aren’t in the way of your move either. Try luring your enemies towards you and into traps whenever you can; your abilities have cooldown periods, so it might be more efficient to use environmental hazards to damage your foes instead of wasting all your abilities on them.
You can get a teleportation glove fairly early on in the game by beating some crocodiles off the coast of Fort Joy. Use the spell to teleport your enemies down to where you can hit them, or place them in a pit of fire.
Also, remember that characters perched on higher ground will be harder to hit, so this might be a good tactic to keep in mind when you’re trying to decide on where to place your mages and archers. If a battle proves too much for you to handle, don’t forget that you always have the option to flee.
