Melee is dumped?

There is not enough passive point for increasing defense and attack both.
When def is increased, map clearance time is easily over 10 mins.
Why does GGG force ppl play ranged characters?
My items are all amour base and 75% block rate and 90% all resistance and 75% chaos res but certain normal(white) monster hit me and lost 80% of hp. rofl.
I have to play huntress with lighting spear then????? This is ridiculous.

According to "the vision" if you get defense you will be immortal 🙄

As far as I am aware, the only melee build that works is Rake Huntress.

I exclude Monk's from counting towards a melee build, because once you get all the right gems, you transform that quarterstaff into a shockwave cannon.

Everything else is basically unplayable.

Duelist might work since Evasion seems to be a good stat to have for melee gameplay, but that class doesn't currently exist in PoE 2.