PoE: Did You Do A Lot of Research/Follow A Build Guide To Help Get You Started?

So i'm a new player, and I started exclusively playing on hardcore. Last night after 7 tries over 2 weeks I finally beat Kitava on act 10. It was an amazing feeling, and i'm still smiling at the achievement. GGG has made an amazing game and the early mapping that i'm starting to do is [...]