Situations without Counterplay

I finally made it to maps after a 43 hour slog where a friend was finally on to help me kill bosses in the interludes. The gear dropping was NOT sufficient. I am failing my first two attempts at level 1 grey maps now. I do fine on the map which is tuned to my level. The bosses have some issues but they are probably beatable if I had 4 hours to wipe on them until I get lucky. My big problem now is running into stupid crap like Abyss in the middle of my map which is EXTREMELY poorly tuned. Why are the mana draining auras on elites so overpowered and always in chokepoints. There is no way to avoid them. You can burn flask charges to a point if you can get out of them, but being a melee wolf requires you to jump in repeatedly. Then you progress through your Abyss and get to another chokepoint where there are 3 elites at once. I could take any one of them 1 on 1. Heck, even 2 on 1 might be possible but I'd lose a couple attempts. 3 is GD impossible! You have no counterplay to try to spread them out or lure them into manageable groups or use terrain to beat you. You have to brute force your way through the chokepoint while devs snicker "hur hur gotcha MF"

Edit: Sorry I realize there is Counterplay. The Counterplay is just quit your map. Haha loser you wasted 20 minutes of your life. Do it again now... Real fun game.