Thank you for writing your thoughts!
In the future, more spells will be avaliable, giving you the option to learn from a pool of avaliable spells and equip the ones you already have into the four slots below. I plan on making spell combos possible (i.e. one spell setting up another one, or maybe increasing the following spell's damage.).
If the status effect that's giving you trouble is the 'gaping' one, drinking a red potion will help restore it a bit. Will write that on the potion's description at some point haha
As for the dash ability, I'll make sure to include a spell for it! Did you try the Spacebar roll for now? It's very helpful when you need to dodge attacks at the very last moment.