Likewise. I'm playing a paladin, and his limited healing plus short rests and potions is more than enough to get through most fights. I brought Shadowheart back into the group recently for plot purposes, but found that she was dropping practically every fight, without contributing a great deal.
I've been mostly running with Gale, but I'm giving Wyll a run-out to see how I like him. Less firepower overall, but better staying power once his spells are exhausted.
They aren't, though. They're just different. BG1/2 basically don't have elevation or terrain at all, just narrower and more open, and the odd choke point. WotR barely has elevation, and only a little in the way of terrain, and also caused a lot of movement issues when I played it, by stuff like not letting characters squeeze past other characters (which could be staggeringly annoying if the initiative was in the wrong order).
Amazingly Gale has been in my party pretty much the entire time, but has only been downed once in combat in 25+ hours (by goblin archers when I was positioning him very riskily). That said I tend to have a three-melee frontline which probably factors in.
