Melee is mostly bound to weapons and the actual level of your character doesn't matter
Well, if progression is the only thing you care about, spell casters will give you the best experience as a new player because they literally scale as you level up. In fact, the only thing that will give you significant damage boost is going to be the level of your main spell. Difference in damage between a level 20 and 21 spell gem is going to be around ~15% increase. Level 20 vs 24(so a lvl 21 gem with a lvl 4 empower support) would almost double your damage.
Melee is mostly bound to weapons and the actual level of your character doesn't matter. If your weapon is bad, so will your character. There are hundreds of leveling unique weapons and most of them are going to be better than whatever you can get from a spell. Melee doesn't require constant increase in links, either. Just change your crap weapon for a better one and you're set to continue your journey.

Nov
Make skin microtransactions easier to retrieve in Path of Exile
instead of the current look through all your tabs and characters until you find that one skin you are looking for method, my proposal is to have non-consumable skins permanently displayed on your microtransactions stash

Dec
Poe4orbs.Com Announces Availability of POE ORBS & POE Currency for Online Gamers
For gaming enthusiasts of the upcoming Path of Exile Breach, Poe4orbs.Com has stored unlimited number of POE Currency and POE ORBS, and is ready to ship items to gamers anywhere in the world.

Jan
In Path of Exile any decision at any point in time matters
Having cool armor skin =/= pay to win.Having 100 times more warehouse space = p2w. If it affects gameplay, its p2w.

Jan
Best PoE 3.13 Ritual Witch Starter Builds
Many of the builds in this PoE 3.13 Ritual Witch Builds guide are good for starter that are popular with many players. For the three ascendancy classes of Elementalist, Occultist and Necromancer, the focus of each build is also different. Hope it helps you.

Nov
Path of Exile is a much better game
If an Exalted Orb or Mirror of Kalandra drops, be very happy, put it into your stash, and forget it exists until you learn how to trade like a pro.

Jan
I'm not fond of how you NEED the Anima Stone jewel
With Flame Golem enchant you get 88 damage(58 without) and can add 3 of these effects on top: 26.1 cast & attack speed, 87 crit and 11.6 phys dmg reduction or 304.5 flat life regen.