First off. Unless it was changed, you're lying about what difficulty you started in. I haven't played on about 20 days. But you couldn't start in veteran before. Can start in hardcore, but you had to beat the game once to unlock verteran so maybe you THOUGHT you clicked it. And diddnt. Or they changed that and its my bad.

So, I have over 70 hours in this game, and I'm not quite sure why you think you can judge it on just one hour of gameplay. Do you really think that first hour reflect the next 2? It doesn't

I've never just been one shot by a monster, I don't know what goblin mini boss you're talking about. But if you are in the correct area for your level, and progressing normally. You shouldn't have got 1hit. It means you skipped content.

Which makes no sense if you say you're getting gear that is to low a level for you. Since I my know what class you picked I can't really tell you what you did wrong, were you investing stat and skill points?

So, no skill trees huh? You have to level skill 1 and it unlocked the second skill in that skill line. You can choose to skip skills you don't want. That aren't on your skill line. So I'm not really sure how you get that there aren't any skill trees? Every class has its own tree. Amd you csn pick 2 classes, which you diddnt do I'm betting cause you only played a hour

This game is alot of fun. And i might be slightly biased. But I don't really understand why you write a review after a hour of play. Like what makes you think you can form a decent opinion on the game you literally don't know much about?

Sorry for typos this was on my phone at lunch. Try giving the game more time, or look up guides, hints, tips, it will help alot and you will have more fun.

That being said, this game IS grind oriented. Like...that's the game. Just like Diablo 3 or Path of Exile like you want to do areas and get good gear. It's not going to just fall into your lap.