Arc of Oscillating Luminary with Aura/Curse-bot Mercenary

Path of Building: https://pobb.in/sTykYX0Dvo7N

In the POB, config is set up to represent the buffs provided by the merc, including the reduced enemy lightning res from curses, and you will find a second gear set showing what the merc is using.

I wanted to make something with the new pact skills, and I ended up settling on Pact of Beidat with Arc of Oscillating. I was fiddling with lots of different ideas for what class to go with, and noticed the fallen reverend merc with wrath + zealotry auras. I decided to lean into that and go with the luminary, stacking as much aura effect on the merc as I could, along with dual curse gloves and anethema with a decent amount of curse effect. And to top it off, of course the merc is using Perquil's Toe to make my damage lucky.

With the merc providing all of the damage, that left me free to focus mostly on defense, so I went with the tried-and-true Maxblock aegis+melding combo.

I am using the new unholy authority belt to buff up the pact and get boons instead of afflictions, and a runegraft of the warp makes those boons last a long time, and also gives me really solid uptime on molten shell along with cooldown reduction.

With a decent amount of shock/ailment effect, I can comfortably 65% shock uber bosses, and the new stormblood flask gives chill/freeze on top.

Overall, the build is not cheap, with a couple hundred divines invested, and you can certainly do much crazier things for less, but I build based on concepts I want to push, and don't care too much about the price/performance ratio.

In the end, it can clear basically all content, so I am happy with it, and Arc is just a very satisfying skill to watch bounce around and zap everything.