Levelling in the new patch?
Minions are probably even better now for leveling than they were before (Shadow fiend and bone fiend regenerating between fights makes those two less of a hassle), and they were already pretty great. Meat shields and damage, your own personal team. Staff for the support and ranged safety, dagger for the rush-down when you need to finish something off yourself.
It’s pretty obvious, and nobody’s impressed.
I’ve been leveling solely with axe/focus and it has been a breeze. Focus 4, axe 2, DS 1 until dead. Repeat. Mostly I just pulled three or four mobs, put down both wells, DS 4 (with a frigging lot of knockbacks interrupting it, but DS soaks the damage and the wells are ticking).
Just remember to tell them to grab signet of locust, a sigil of bloodlust and buying Mighty (then Strong and lastly Berserker) gear.