An update for those who were in my situation and weren't sure if they could handle PoTD the first time around.
Like I said I'm playing as a Palla of St Elcga, (M16,D10,C10, P12, I14, R16, yeah I can hear the powergamers groan) first part I had trouble with was the temple of eothas, I advanced as far as I could alongside Eder and Aloth, letting the fighter block passageways while my char poked the enemies with his pike after initiating combat with an FoD charged crossbow bolt (haven't found mah boomstick yet), while Aloth just blasted Consehaults, Minoletas and chill fogs, before realizing my party was just not hitting hard enough to beat the toughest monsters of each group (Skuldr Kings, Shades) even if I could easily defeat the lesser ones, so I retreated and made my way to Caed Nua, doing the stolen weapon cache side quest in the process (I just used scouting mode and lured the bandits to the trolls right next to them, fun times) got Kana and advanced into Caed Nuad until getting assraped by all the spirits, went back the temple of Eothas and cleared it out at last, then went south, recruited Durance and powered trough Caed Nua, beating Maerwald after a few tries and getting the stronghold. Now about to head into Defiance bay.
Lots of fun so far, but I gotta say that as much I appreciate the attempt to restrict rest spamming, only being able to carry 2 camp supplies when dungeon crawling is annoying as fuck, and only ads on tedium rather than challenge. each time I ran out I just retreated back to the surface, fast traveled to a store and bought some more before going right back into the dungeons, should have made it so that supplies are only needed inside dungeons so all the player had to do is get back outdoors to rest up rather than go all the way to the nearest store to buy supplies.
All in all it's been fun, and I haven't played and old school RPG in years so to any other PoE noobs I say just go for Path of the Damned, it's totally doable.
I think that Might affecting ALL kinds of damage, including spells and ranged attacks, is p. silly to be honest. A mage has to be a beefcake rather than a braniac to be effective...