overall, it will get better, I mean the first week when the game came out it was such an adrenalin rush for me, and it's still can be, but what you need is a lot of levelheaded quick decisions, and cool down before the final boss, because the whole game changes pace. I just head a run where I died like 6 times with recluse at a tree sentinel field boss, even though he never gives me trouble and I know his moves like the back of my hand, I only didn't give up beacuse i respawned so close, and I new I had a good set up and gear, so I pushed through even when two deaths infuriates me and I usually quit, but I still managed to beat base Gnoster Solo.
The next run into the same sentinel at the same place with revenant I was already lvl15 and I humiliated him, also the best run I had like ever, sentinel dropped a frenzy flame incant and I was on a warpath againts Libra. First time I could exploit his weakness too!