Lvl31 witch summoner chaos

I've made it to act 2 and killed Tor Gul the Defiler. @lvl31 no ascendancy. I'm having issues with keeping the skeletons alive, and damage is.. very low except when my impending doom procs, contaigen just helps with constant slow damage. When I get a number of empowered zombies damage goes up a bit.

Act1: run circles let boss die from contaigen, and main skills. Minions help but aren't the main damage.
Most bosses do this it's very slow.

Gameplay:
Cast Ed, contaigen on enemy. Hex enemy and let it spread.

Killing enemies is very slow progress toward Tor Gul. Enemies kill my skeletons quickly but my contaigen and curses spreading is most of the damage. I use empowered zombies from the charges I get from corpses/siphon.

When killing rares, I tend to have a lot of issues and die when 2 rares are together. There is still a tendency when an enemy targets you, they will not stop chasing you till you or it dies. Minions can attack it repeatedly and it doesn't care.

For Tor Gul i ran in circles dodging casting ED, enfeeble, and bone storm. Occassional ic emage command, and summon empowered zombies when his minions died which gave a decent boost in damage. Died 10-15 times but got it.

Notable passives:
Gravedigger, necrotised flesh, fear of death, relentless fallen, crystalline flesh, restless dead.

Skills:
Essence Drain,
Bone storm,
summon skeletons (wand)
summon skeletons,
ice mage,
Summon zombies
power siphon (or profane ritual) /(multiple charge support),
contaigen,
pain offering,
enfeeble (decaying hex, impending doom)
- not all supports listed


Any suggestions on improving minion damage/life? I'm keeping all the minion skill gems up to date to the highest level.

I know they don't have any pure minion ascendancy.. which slightly worries me as it means minions... may as well not be a thing or used only as sacrificial lambs for increased damage elsewhere. However, if minions truly are pointlessly used for abilities, then how should we increase the damage in other areas?

I've seen people say flame skulls is good? Since I have more bonus damage to minions should I just swap to that with flame wall instead of contaigen?
I kind of want to keep bone storm as it does increase minion damage per attack slightly...
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