It's past time you just admit you can't figure out melee balance.

Just give the actual melee skills DR while using them. Act 1 and 2 are so damn brutal, trying to use actual melee skills. So much crap swarms you, explodes on top of you, rapid fires from the edge of the screen, or has a retaliation skill. I don't understand how every league gets worse when ranged is just backpedaling and avoiding 95% of what melee has to deal with. It blew my mind the first time I played a ranged character, just how few mobs could actually hit me.

That's right, just don't play them.

Try parry with huntress. You are a ticking time bomb waiting to get heavy stunned and then dead... for what payoff? None, compared to any ranged build.