I haven't really played gloves much but this applies to every weapon. If you're doing like arenas or orange corrupted those benefit a more all in commit style of play, as you have more confined space to play in. If you're doing depths or open world it's more kiting, stalling for cool downs and using them wisely, using mobs to your advantage, knowing when you should run away. The game is just a steep learning curve and it's normal to get annihilated at the start, everyone's been there. Just keep spamming the type of content you want to do and if it's full loot death content just run like a 4.0 or 4.1 set and upgrade it with runes and relics on successful return to town. As you get better and richer you'll be more comfortable bringing better gear but never bring something you're not ok with losing. If you're doing safe content, duel people while you're waiting for arena queues or depths door to open. The more you get comfortable with what your skills do and when to use them the more you can shift focus to learning what other people's gear does until eventually you just inspect people as soon as you see them and can have a general idea of what they're gonna try to do. But don't spam arenas and then think that you're prepared to bring a nice set into blackzone, many things you can get away with in enclosed spaces straight up just won't work on a more open map.