These people that said that do not really matters the skills, are clearly blind
50% of damage on your main weapon is a real huge buff
50% of damage and draw speed makes ur simple bow into a semi auto partisan rifle
50% of damage absorion from parry/blocking makes u survive against 2* goblin lancers easily

Tips to not die often : use silver to padded armor all the time and get eaten with mid game to late game food when u are out of your base ( turnip soup , carrot soup , serpent soup, sausages , lox meat pie , fish wraps and blood puddin ) , use bonemass power when the deal gets harder