I haven’t tried my builds too much with this season. I don’t know about harder content, but my go-too for PvE: Warlock: Sunbracers- still seem to work well with get melee and or grenade energy back. Eye of Another World Briarbinds Necrotic Grip- works well with a subclass, however I really enjoy it with Strand.

Over time a whole lot more builds will probably be starting to be talked about. I am no buildsmaster but it's going to be more weapons focused most likely. A lot of the PvE players appear to be starting with exotic armor as their foundation and that's fine. They will build their way to where they"re going better than I will.

Armamentarium void titan with ruinous effigy. Good survivability and lots of purple chaining explosions with free overshields, devour, and weakening effects. Shards of galanor solar hunter with supers in like 15/20 seconds on the average. Phoenix protocol solar warlock. Endless wells in about 20/30 seconds. My go to solar weapon is ticuu’s divination. Everything burns and explodes knocking back bigger enemies. My go to primary is Buzzard with kinetic tremors. Range does not affect kinetic tremors from proc’ing. Great knocking back bigger enemies and ad clearing due to kinetic tremors explosions that got buffed.