How are melee classes now?
I got PoE 2 when it first launched into early access, and I went Witch while my friend went Warrior. We were having fun until we got to chapter 2, and both of us were getting absolutely fucked. Especially as Warrior, he found himself constantly unable to close distance without getting murdered, and he just quit.
I found Witch to be incredibly difficult (I'm new to PoE) and just got so lost with how to build my class because building in what I thought was cool just kept getting me 1 shot, and it felt like in order to be spell focused, I was going so far into the sorceress tree that I wondered why I went Witch to begin with.
Almost a year later, how is the game now? I'm still looking for a challenge, but is melee more viable now? I ask because my son might be interested in the game, but he normally likes to be "big weapon" type characters, and I don't want him to similarly feel completely frozen out if getting into melee is suicide.
