So yeah im finding normal difficulty quite hard... every fight Ive had so far, has taken me numerous tries and when I do get by its by the skin of my teeth.
At the moment Im at a cave near a waterfall north of Cyseal and I honestly dont know what Im doing wrong

My whole party is lvl 5 (rogue and knight main, and the 2 starter followers) and the enemy group im facing is outnumbers me 2 to 1...its 2 mages, 2 skelleton archers, 2 ghouls (i think) and 3 zombie boars???? all level 5... AND I JUST KEEP ON GETTIGN GANKED
Seems every bloody second Im getting poisoned and burnt! I cant attack boars with out getting poisoned... archers and mages constantly burning me to a crisp.
Ive been having fun with the game so far, but lately has started to feel like a major grind... "oh my 2 characters have died" *quickload* wash, rinse, repeat...
and its not like I can do anything else, enemies are a once off and the games pretty linear (so far anyway) done most of the quests Cyseal... managed to do the lighthouse now working my way east...
anyway thats my issue, feel free to offer some advise