Stubbornly I keep creating new characters whenever I die in hardcore mode, kind of cause I thought it'd be similar like in Diablo that you can't access them again and not that it'll just turn into a non-hardcore character, but also cause I wanna progress without dying. It kind of feels like it's not as fun if I die and then retry a certain boss, although maybe I should've practiced with those characters on that boss now that I think about it, hmm.
Either way, I did another two runs today after I reinstalled POE2, one was with the Witch (not a big fan of the class), the other was with the Archer (liking it a lot so far).
I didn't do commentary when playing with the Witch cause honestly I didn't think I'd get far with her to begin with, but this attempt happened before the Archer. I will however post the archer gameplay video with commentary first here followed by the Witch.
Anyway, game is quite fun and I'm quite excited to see what awaits next now as I've never gotten this far before. Have died twice to Draven in the past with a Warrior and I think it was Sorcerecess second.
I also took the advice of @bozz to use WASD to move the character around instead of point to click, I think this is a much better method as it gives me a lot more room to move while shooting and pressing abilities than it did before so thanks for that!
Another thing to keep in mind is that I'm playing on a server in California with 150ms, for some reason that's the fastest connection available to me even though there are servers from countries much closer - and no I don't have VPN on when playing. It's kind of annoying to have another almost human reaction in between me and the server but let's see how it goes. Had quite a few close encounters here with some elite creatures resistant to lightning/elemental damage.
And here's the Witch gameplay which is not with commentary:
Thanks for watching and until next time!