I made a fun sacrifice shadow build using bone golem alone and it works surprisingly well (life-on-kill, 30% goes to minions), minion thorns proc lucky hit for decrep cooldown, you can spam taunt, dash in and grab the borrowed strength node cluster for an added 25% to your damage, and you only lose 2% DR from stand alone for 1 minion, bone golem is essentially indestructible after it taunts anyway.
You can stack thorns on it also - up to 80% of your thorns on bone golem - you can stack 18k > the big boy gets 14,500. lets call it 14000. 14000 x calmed aspect 1.3 is 18200 x intelligence 1.6 is 29120. damage to close on items (3 x 33%) + damage to slowed (decrep) on items (3 x 33%) + damage to crowd control on items (3 x 25%) x2 is 58,240 x vuln at a conservative 1.5 is 87,360 every time the enemy hits your invulnerable golem. You can raise this far higher via glyphs and nodes (damage to healthy, damage to injured, imbiber etc all transfer 30% to the + bucket, ive seen it hit for over 250-300k (it cant crit) when decay trigger triggers (which it does all the time)
Aspect of the damned with iron maiden + decrep you deal an extra 40% shadow damage, you heal for 5% of your max health (15k health - that’s an extra 750 life-on-kill, which is higher than you can stack life-on-kill with all your gear) from iron maiden and every time they hit the golem iron maiden hits them for ~5-10k extra on top of thorns.
Bone golem also has this big swiping attack that hits surprisingly hard.
I also slot needleflare aspect - it doesnt work on the golem, but anything that hits you it works on, because remember you also deal 100-120k (low end) every time an enemy hits you.
Anyway, its certainly viable and fun and you dont see many necro’s running around with just 1 golem ^
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