Any other self found melee successes?

Not following any youtube/meta guides I've finally landed on a place where I can safely do end game T10+ maps but its taken me a lot of tinkering that's for damn sure! Its honestly like the complete contrast from a casual friendly experience like D4.

Playing Monk and I chose Darkness ascendancy and honestly got trapped into the whole "remove spirit for darkness ES", It's that bad a suggestive practice that I think GGG should put that as a 4th point instead of a 2nd point so that players appreciate good spirit gemming!

I only have 60% evasion, resists and 1500 health+750 ES, but blind with 150% effect everything and CC electrocute/freeze everything easily and I barely have good attack speed. Second weapon swapping to a unique freeze weapon and passive spec'ing into Ice Wall has practically no health is amazing and walls are op! Mobs literally get taunted by a wall, they just attack it even if its obvious to go around it! (Although its funny/cool that I get chilled by my own wall! xD)

I love how this game makes you think but I was partly depressed for a while and still needed some Rocket League with my mate but everything is coming together!

Good job GGG!

*cries in Titan*

No.

Currently at lvl 96 with my Invoker in SSF. Having tremendous success with it. Starting from humble beginning of Ice Strike build, pushing through the horrible crafting system and land me self 500pds quarterstaves, got hand of wisdom and action, got ingenuity belt with 75% effect, transitioning from 1,8k HP and ES into 4k CI ES build, and now I'm CI Pillar of God build with 310 STR DEX and 520 INT.

hcssf titan warrior doing t13 maps. I'm scared of breach though as I almost got instaripped in a t4 map with fairy decent stats at the time. I opened the breach and there was in a 1-2 second time frame about 100 monsters around me. I'm starting to be wary of monsters with clear telegraphs doing big damage, even if they are normal mobs which means a rare pack with the wrong mods will surely kill me.

I use leapslam or the molten projectiles to proc primed for stun and infernal cry then boneshatter to clear the pack. Hammer of the gods + perfect strike to finish them. Rolling slam to proc primed for stun on bosses.

why are people so obsessed with melee?

It's been inferior since forever. Unless you have extremely great gear, which you won't have as a starter. And then people will just say with equal investment it will still be inferior to spells/ranged by a lot.

I knew a guy that wanted to play this, but he could only play dual strike because it was the only skill that looks melee enough for him. I just don't get the mentality of having to play it.