6-Link or 4-Link & +2 Minion Level

Good morning everyone,
I hope this is the right place to ask this question, I'm playing with the thought for a zombie-based summoner. Most Summoner builds i know and played for myself are putting zombies in the helmet with +2 Level for Minion Gems and 4-Link, but i ask myself if it is better (damage and/or survivability wise) to put the "Raise Zombie"-gem into a 2h-weapon or chest with 6 links. I know spectre + zombies would be better, but i simply want to know if 2 extra support gems would compensate the 2 extra levels of the helmet.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to read this post, and an even bigger thanks if anyone has some advice.

So far,
have a nice day ;)

Depents on your gear.

If you want to play zombies as your main damage AND you only have a 4Link, use your 2+helmet for more damage and life.
Keep in mind that you zombies will be squshy with offensive gems(without any +lifegem or resi).

If you already got a 6-Link Weapon or Chest go for it. 2 additional supportgems will be so much better then +2 later on. (also if you got lucky, you can have a +1 Gem on weapon or chest so it is +1 difference only).


Greetings,
Coo

Only +2 minion item that can get more than 4-links that might work well for zombies if u get 5-6links on it.



Another way if u dont like +2 minion helmet:
+1 gems corruption on bones of ullr (pretty cheap item so u can hoard some and go for science) and lvl 2+ empower.
Raise zombie + multistrike + empower + melee phys (or minion damage)

And use montregul's grasp weapon.

At several places it is stated that you should use the zombies in a +2 helmet for their added survival.

I have tried it several times and indeed they survive almost everything but i wanted faster clear speed and not their survival. So i decided to try it out myself and 6-link the zombies, I really liked it alot!

I use the following setup: Minion Damage, Melee Physical, Faster Attacks, Minion Speed, Melee Splash. Have tried different combinations of gems but have settled for those as I only have 180 spara mana after auras(Haste/Clarity/Generosity+Hatred/discipline). Why i use Minion speed is that I also use SRS in a 6-linked staff and the zombies need to keep up the pace with the faster SRS. As of now i dont use any curses except for temporal chains (i should try out vulnerability to see if it improves the clearspeed or not, or at least use enfeeble on bosses)

Got 268% increased minion damage so the zombies really are effective killers even without the SRS. The zombies sometimes die on the more elemental focused bosses but i still lack some resistance on them. (They only have 67% in resistance and ~11k life). Have yet to find one more gem that give minion damage/minion resistance.

Have only been able to find maps up to rank 12 and the only boss that always kills zombies are the Crematorium boss so the SRS then kills it off instead.

Edit:

Anyone know of a good dps calculator for zombies that is updated?

i like 6 link over +2 helm. for my lvl 21 zombies i use

21/20 multistrike
21/20 melee physical damage
4 empower
20/23 minion damage
21/20 melee splash, 20/20 fortify, 20/20 added fire

zombies have a bit above 16k life