My never having played thoughts

[Treesh]

Oh, and with the passive Circle of Life, you can get your zombie dogs without having to have the skill, although then you do miss out on a passive, but it's something to think about. There is a limit to three dogs, regardless of how you got them. If you have all three from the active skill still alive, then one won't spawn from the passive.

Yeah I considered Circle of Life, but it just didn't seem useful with already being at the limit with the summon skill. To me it seems like something you would need to be using Sacrifice with to really take advantage of and it just doesn't seem like a playstyle I want right now.

I never used it with sacrifice. I just didn't have the zombie dogs as a skill. This is what I ended up with using in the beta at the end since I wanted to have the dogs, but wanted to play around with some of the other skills as well. I started out really wanting to have a bunch of minions running around, but at that low level I didn't like the frogs or the spiders or the bats which was a horrible disappointment. I loved the puppies though. =) Soul harvest + haunt and the dogs really tore through the low level stuff. I'm still going to be fiddling with having a herd following my WD around though. Haven't decided if the pets are going to be with the HC WD or the softcore one though. I have the feeling that I'll keep changing everything out as I level. I always have had an issue with coming up with an end game build rather than leveling builds instead. =)