PoE Multiple Totems, Witch builds

Are people sleeping on dark pact as a league starter for 3.17, or is it just too weak. I know, there are the EAs and Nightblade/elusive builds, but dark pact seems to be super strong with no investment whatsoever. No uniques required. Random PoB Occ with no gear, lvl 85 and a 5l Dark pact gives me around 1m single target It scales with minion life, crit, chaos dmg, 5 chains. This has to be at least solid. somebody playing it in 3.16?

This is my first own build and only a THEORY CRAFT until league start. The idea of the build is to self-cast Dark Pact with mana cost of >= 100 to trigger [[Kitava's Thirst]] which then summons the skeletons, casts Desecrate and Flesh Offering, which in return powers the 200% cast speed of corpse pact. I plan to start this league with self casted Skeletons + Dark Pact and transition into this build as soon as it is possible. (need a 6L and [[Fevered Mind]] to hit the 100 mana breakpoint, OR link with archmage gem) Mana regen is gonna be interesting since our Dark Pact costs 100+ mana and

So, I was watching Jaamon's channel on Youtube (good Youtuber, good builds in general, recommend this guy) and he put up a pretty solid rolling magma ignite build. I worked at it a bit based off his stuff and came with this idea of using stormbind + blackflame + Eber's unification + incandescent heart. It turned out pretty well, but only in theory. Just a note, I haven't played this at all. This is not a post to say "go play this build" or "this is going to be great in 3.17". None of the build is insanely pricey. Blackflame is like 2ex. IH 6 link is probably 2 ex. Matyr is like 40c. Most of

If you arent tired of BV occultist yet, this build will probably destroy any delve content. You have 3 curses + grace + some spell supression + regen/recoup as a base defense. EB takes care of any mana concerns. You get something like 15% of life on kill which in delve happens all the time. you destroy all corpses and jumping spiders should be insta gibbed as long as BV is up. DPS can scale very easily on no items. If you wanna go fast other movement skills are an option and plage bearer lets you dash through all content i would be running this if i hadnt played B

This is roughly 25ex of investment. Just wanted to do a showcase unedited that includes deaths and roughly the amount of time it takes to clear this type of map. Not an insane amount of juice, but a good amount. Showcase PoB: EDIT: It's been about 20h and I've had a ton of conversations in the comments section of this post. This is the PoB I've landed on after all the input: EDIT 2: Anecdotally, this feels significantly better

PoB: So, with the new life recoup notes on the tree, you can do some really interesting stuff. Something that could be cool for any staff caster is to combine them with Glancing Blows and the new staff mastery that grants %life on block. That way you don't only get life when you block, but a chunk of the damage that glanced you also gets recouped. The next step is to combine this with Forbidden Rite. This skill deals a ton of damage, but also hits you. Damage from those hits can be recouped. The new recoup body armour can make it