Minion-based soloing builds are useless in Hell difficulty

[Arethor]

It's kind of disappointing how quickly the dogs scale out of being useful. The only way I found them to be useful in the latter part of Nightmare and start of hell is if you run with Sacrifice too and use them as a nuke. But then you're giving up 2 ability slots. It's a decent amount of nuking power with 4 dogs, but the CD on Dogs is too high to make it viable, and it's really easy for a few dogs to get killed off almost instantaneously before you can activate Sacrifice. They simply don't have enough HP even with Zombie Handler and Jungle Fortitude to be effective.

I still find the Gargantuan is useful thanks to his larger HP pool, but even he doesn't survive for very long against champs/elites. I went up against a few Plagued/Vampiric/X packs last night and the only purpose he served was to refill their health. I ended up having to just kite/kill them solo.