Penance Mark disappointment for melee

Hi

I am very sad.

The video i saw before the league was a zombi with penance mark get hit and it spawned 3 little guy beside him, i was so happy becouse my first build a flicker strike gladiator struggled on bosses before i invested like 50 divine on it. Now i was determinted to fix my build with penance mark to get easy frenzy charges on kill effects.

My plan was to use Ancestral Call, Splash Damage, Gratuitous Violence, and other on kill explosion effect like Legacy of Fury
Wyrmscale Boots with Penance Mark, and Blood Magic.
When i first tried penance mark, i noticed the little guys doesnt spawn close to the target, and i know this gonna brick the idea, but i was in denial. So i ramped up my melee strike range and melee splash aoe with heavy investment in increased are of effect. I managed to make it work so my splash reaches the spawned little guys and the ancestral's splash hits the boss, but i had to use Kitava's Feast
Void Axe which is kinda bad. Then i finally got Gratuitous Violence and realised that i dont think the explosion on kill reaches the boss. Anyway my mob clearing is onetap destroy the whole screen, but my boss dmg is noodle. I am so sad and disappointed and i dont understand.

Why GGG hates melee?
Why do they had to change the spawn range of the little guys?
Why am i still playing?
Does anyone have any idea or comment?

Pls dont tell me to roll another characther i want to make this work or play a different game and wait for poe2, and i know Gladiator and Flicker strike on pure melee phys or bleed is kinda bad now.

I wonder if you can use Void Sphere to pull them into range? The new transfigured version doesn't have a cooldown and still has the "pull" from the original. Clunky probably, and you'd have to find a way to automate/trigger that, but could do what you need.

I was thinking about that too, but the little guys die instantly as they spawn, becouse of my dps.