My Experience So Far for POE 2

Some context:
1. merc
2. chill
3. just a casual peeps

Now, I am in the 3rd act, this map is HOLY SHIT big but without any significant meaning about why i got deadend. Now, this map I can say is pretty so far with other act but it is useless big without any meaning, and backtracking is tiring. Other thing is, that the AI is so smart, i can give that but with that smart comes some annoyance that I got
1. They are so fuckin fast, I am so slow (i know there's a boot but i'll get to that later)
2. They have mostly chaos (and the boss is annoyingly good, i love the mechanic using wasd) and lightning attack

Now, here's the problem (i know people will say, oh skill issues but I think that argument is irelevant)
1. My passive tree is mostly for attack and projectile damage
2. The loot drop is so significantly low so If i want to go back and farm some items, it would have some time consumption (not mentioning RNG of the stats and also with crafting)
3. Crafting is so slow because I only got orb of augment and orb of trans so the best I got is to make the blue one first which RNG

So here's what I want to say
1. I wanna wait until I think more buff to the loot (so i can chase the stats that I want in gear)
2. Other things to mention, with this kind of mob, I wonder if I can get a gem with 3 or 4 socket support available, it would be nicely help the progression
3. Or I could wait for respec cost to be more lower, level 48 with 3k per respec is expensive with how many you can get per map run


that's it, hopefully it help GGG a bit

Also, I don't want to play minion build just for the sake of the story progression or cheesy, I can wait the story until it full release, I just want to make sure that my merc is still my top priority :D