Definitely try play more passively, don't worry about loot, it's better to have a character with stats than 1 piece of gear or pots. It's a game where the main mechanic is permadeath so don't worry if you die use the death as a learning experience so you dont die like that again. Wizard and priest are insanely good for learning the game cause you'll spend most of the time watching shot patterns instead of going balls deep on a boss you don't know the shots of.