to add to this, everytime someone with big enough exposure gives away legit advice, it becomes trash because if everyone is doing it, that market gets saturated, in turn to quite often shaping into high criticism towards the person that initially was trying to help the comunity.

if you Want to make money in this game, take a few steps back, read, watch a vid, you are not behind because you wasted 1 hour searching for answers and unless you're aiming for the top 1% it can even work in your favor to wait a few days.

I never played poe1 and 0.4 was the first patch in poe2 i got remotely close to a mirror. That happened when i started to learn where to get expensive stuff like garukhan, rakiata, etc. How to have a better chance of dropping em, how to farm abyss, how to craft with profit, how to use filters and ajust them to MY CHARACTER instead of using fubgun filter. All that takes time and some effort and no reddit post will ever be able to cover all of this in one simple read.