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My first necro in 5 years, need advice

Yeah, necro was my first char when D2 came out and now I wanna build the second. As you can imagine, I need some advice...

First of all, I read the guides but I'm a bit confused on the bone spells mainly.

I wanna build a revive necro with some golem, possibly skeles if they are worth. I would use normally bone spirit and amplify and lower resist mainly. I would try to get TO set 'cause its cheaper and gives fire tricks that the uniques equivalent and use leo's arm as weapon.

The way I thought the skills:
1 amplify
1 skele
max skele mastery
max one golem
maybe 5 revives
1 golem mastery
max bone spirit
maybe max bone armor but this is one of my questions

Now, the questions:

- is any golem worth using? if yes, which one? maxed, right?
- is it worth getting confusion, iron maiden and lower resists or amplify would suffice?
- bone armor, any good to max or could i go without?
- corpse explosion, still good? 1 point, right?
- bone wall/bone prison: damn if I know if these are useful
- merc: offensive, right?

As you can see, there are basic questions, hope someone will take the time to help me.

Thanks,
WW