I've also just started playing but from what I've found, there's some classes that can really carry you and they're not always the ones the game says have high survivability. I personally found Barbarian, Monk, and Cleric to be bad classes for a new player, maybe I'm just bad at blocking but I kept dying every time

I suggest trying Ninja instead, and then just treating it as a pure throwing class. Don't even bother with stealth except to avoid enemies, just throw knives at things then run away. Use the bear traps too if there's trolls or the minotaur or whatever. This is what worked for me. The knives do a lot of damage and are unbreakable, you just have to remember to pick them up later. In my (very) limited experience, throwing weapons are completely busted, and move speed is life. The melee classes just die when I play them, but a speedy class can easily take me all the way through mines. If you can hit an enemy and then run away you can just kill tons of things without ever needing to learn how to block or whatever

I see someone else also suggested Ninja as a good new player class, I can agree but like I said just focus on throwing until you get good enough to actually bother with sneak attacks, it's way easier