Should I try to make my own build?

For me making my own builds is what keeps the game fun. I also really enjoy to go on poe.ninja and look at builds, in particular those, that i don't understand at first glance, in order to figure out how they work and what makes them tick.
There is some kind of structural or architectonical beauty in PoE that no other game of the genre has.

I also don't think the "car" comparison is a particularily good one. Most people don't drive a car for fun. Most of the time they just need a convenient way to get from point A to point B, and sometimes they want to impress their neighbours or their coworkers. Those people, who actually do drive for fun and e.g. participate in ralleys usually also have at least some mechanical knowledge, because it's part of the fascination for them.

That being said a friend of mine has been playing arc miner and cyclone slayer exclusively for almost ten years now and has shown no signs whatsoever, that he would want to broaden his experience or deepen his knowledge.

Different strokes for different folks, i guess. So in the end it boils down to the ageold question: wich kind of player are you?

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cectakt#0442 wrote:

I have 4k hours of PoE on Steam, however most of them are tornado shot archer. So my knowledge about other builds, mechanics, uniques is pretty limited. However, copy/pasting somebody else's build doesn't satisfy me. On the other hand, I don't want to waste my hours for a potentialy disaster build. Is it worth making your own build? If so please tell me a skill that I'm unlikely to fail. Thanks!

Yes, you should. And you should embrace that failure.

Path created a wonderfully unique system for skills that allows for near limitless possibility. It's a travisty that people miss the forest for the trees and just copy and past stuff. If you even have a thousand hours in the game and have gotten into red maps, you likely at least understand the basics, and while any time is fine to start self driving, if you've been paying attention -at all- you should yourself have a fine idea on how a skill might be made to work. And trust me, that skill can be made to work. Yes, even that one.