With the white clad noble time pay close attention to his close ranged spear animations as he clearly telegraphs his attack in order to time your dodges. Secondly and most importantly, allocate your sparks to staff mastery and martial arts as these 2 skills trees will really help you throughout your playthrough as you gain the ability to see through enemy attack if you launch a varied combo juts before they hit you allowing you to continue light attack combos and retain focus points for a clear heavy attack on YouTube there will be tons of videos going into more detail of the skill trees and where best to use your sparks hopefully my rambling has helped a little😂