Sentinel of Radiance changes for better Link Synergy

Guardian's Sentinel of Radiance has almost no synergy with Link skills, which seems to be a Guardian subtheme, and results in an extremely frustrating experience where it's trivial to cause sudden death if you're Linking to it.

Currently it requires tracking the exact duration of the summon (which isn't listed in the buff icon) and making sure you never relink to it if your Link duration would exceed it (unsocketing the link gem will not get rid of the Link, you WILL die). It also means recasting your minion to refresh its duration while you're linked will kill you.

Giving the minion "Does not expire while linked", or have it vanish on expiry instead of die (like Dancing Dervishes) would be a great way to enable solo Link builds for Guardian.

I am a bit irritated:

I tried to die from linking to an expiring 'Sentinel of Radiance' either by reapplying a link every few seconds or resummoning it while being linked.

I wasn't able to end myself. How do you come to the idea that this would happen, did you ever successfully try that ingame?

I would agree that there isnt that much synergy here even tho I think you could scale its hit damage quite well.

You can't die in your hideout if that's where you were trying it.

I tried summoner + link, but having some minions that die after duration makes every cast of link skill russian roulette, what if I accidentally hit SRS?
Would be nice to cast some links to spectres, but they are so fast you can hardy hit them, especially on a tight spot!