I’ve been playing straight minions like so many others (it’s fun dude!) and just started farming 925 gear to eventually temper. I’m thinking of switching to the Shadow Minions build on Maxroll for the added survivability of Bone Storm, but noticed that the preferred affix on this build is for the skeleton mages and not the golem, but I know the golem scales crazy high and would give more back on bosses and elites, but he also tends to derp around in dungeons sometimes and 5 mages pewpewing everything seems pretty damn nice. Want to decide this before I use mats or end up wasting nice pieces of gear because of indecision. Should I focus on one kind or mix it up? I appreciate any helpful feedback here.
Well shadow mages would scale with all the darkness dmg % you’d get and also proccing shadowblight.
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The common wisdom right now is to focus golem. The blood golem can do absolutely disgusting damage. And its active ability can help mitigate the derpyness.
If youd like a more thorough explanation with math and sources, check out macrobioboi’s youtube (or twitch).
Homeboy has a background as a research scientist and almost always supports his build claims with testing and data. And his testing suggests that golem just does way better damage.
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Mages for speed farming. Golem when you need a champion against Uber Boss to do your dirty work.
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I watched Macrobioboi’s video. Good stuff! Thank you for pointing me that way.
Do whatever you think is fun. 
Max roll is for speed running and pushing the limits. But us normies play for fun. If you ruin gear just go run Hell Maiden for a couple hours and get new replacements.