STarting health is 200 but max health is 700. That helped a lot for me. Plus upgrading the outfit with better mods.Why not? You're missing out on most of the combat system
NEver used ice, shock, or coruption. Just used the max boltcaster, default bow, mid tripcaster, and tearblaster. Never bought a slingshot or the machine gun like thing.
DIdn't ever use non tripcaster traps either. Just sold those for shards.
You should at least try it