ForSparda: Im trying to find nordom in the maze which honestly wouldnt be that hard if every single enemy didnt make a mad dash for TNO who in my case is a mage and therefore goes down in like 2 or 3 hits
What are your stats looking like? My character was a mage as well, but but he could put up a pretty decent fight (especially with the party to bail him out).
Regardless, you *can* run out of each room without killing anything; only problem is that if you are having to do that in order to survive after only a couple of rooms, you are probably going to get your butt handed to you should you stumble across the maze boss.
kmonster: There are a lot of defensive mage spells which can be cast beforehand.
This. Using magic is not all about nuking everything with offensive spells (although that can be damn satisfying); you need to also make effective use of your buffs and de-buffs, same goes for any other party members who know magic.