Struggling After 750+ Hours — Need Real Guidance

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XxxPssySlayerxxX#5201 написал:

First time experience POE and you chose melee lol, that's where all your problem started. This game hates melee players so if you are frustrated then better play ranger next time.

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TheUrge#6622 написал:

PoE2 is my very first Path of Exile experience. I’ve never touched PoE1 before, and I came into this game completely blind. Now, after 750+ hours, I feel like I’ve learned almost nothing about how it actually works. There have been moments where I really enjoyed it, but also moments of pure frustration — I’ve rage-deleted characters before, and most recently I even rage-uninstalled the game entirely.

The breaking point for me came after watching some streams. It honestly felt like I was a frog stuck in a tiny pond, suddenly realizing there’s an entire ocean outside I know nothing about. The knowledge gap is crushing. I understand the absolute basics (like resistance caps), but when it comes to damage scaling, synergies, or actually building a character properly, I’m completely lost. My entire “strategy” has basically been: take every damage node for my Ice Strike. And now I realize that’s not how the game is meant to be played at all.

What makes it worse is the amount of misleading or half-baked guides out there. For someone like me, it’s almost impossible to tell what’s good advice and what’s just noise. I don’t want to waste more time following bad builds, dying endlessly, rage-quitting, and feeling like all those hours mean nothing. (In this league alone, my character has already died more than 350 times.)

All I want is to step up my game, but I desperately want a proper foundation so I can stop running in circles. I mostly play Monk, but I’ve also tried Invoker and AoC — and no matter what I pick, it always feels like I’m missing the core knowledge that makes everything click.

So here’s my desperate request:
Can anyone please point me toward creators or resources that actually provide reliable, fundamental knowledge? Something that can finally bridge this painful gap and help me understand instead of just flailing around.

I really do love this game — otherwise I wouldn’t have put in 750+ hours already — but right now it feels like I’m failing it, and it’s crushing my enjoyment. I don’t want to keep rage-quitting. I want to finally “get it.”

Thanks for taking the time to read this. Any help or direction would mean a lot.