Animate Guardian / Animate weapon

This league I tried to do some interesting things with animate guardian (AG) but they just didn't feel good, I got the AG's damage pretty high but as an attack minion its about worthless. I say its worthless because for some reason it stops like every 3-5 seconds to do some stupid animation that serves no purpose, whats it doing? picking its nose? If you have never really messed with AG slap a weapon on it and you will see what I'm talking about. Animate guardian is great as a walking armor rack to get aura buffs from but I feel like it should be able to fill another minion role (why even give it attacks and increased physical damage?).

I got around using animate guardians horrible attacks in a previous league by tossing burning legion on it and stacking a lot of resist which takes a ton of damage nodes away. Now burning legion got nerf batted into oblivion by removing over half its decent support gems (Burning damage being the biggest, goodbye mirror arrow burning legion build).

To get the better animate weapons on chains of command the AG has to be responsible for kills, there are a few uniques to assist with this but again AG sucks at attacking.

I really like the idea of having minions based around items you get to chose, namely weapons. I know animate weapon fills this role but unless you are using chains of command you are never going to give an animate weapon a good item because they are short duration. I would love to see a unique item that made a small number of animate weapons permanent (hell I'd take one over AG in its current state), or you know remove the nose picking animation from AG.