learning how to dodge and how to move your camera view is actually crucial. Camera position influence the type of attack you will do (with fast attack, you can influence if you do the longer pirouette attack or just the standard sweep from the side) while dodging.. its ultimate crowd control tool.. you can circle around your enemies like a Sheppard dog, and attack when you find opening (and for occasional hits they do to you while dodging, its good to invest into fleet footed ability) .. i usually do this with drowners, herd them together just to burn them with igni all at once, then while they are stuck burning, just use critical heavy attack from behind to finish them off... actually hack and slashing as fast as you can is contra-productive in this as first hit stops the burning effect, and they start attacking you again... so yeah, thinking what you do, and how you attack is very important... but of course, this is Death March stuff, not for the easy difficulty...