Enemy creeps won't though.

You've hit it right on the head actually WickedDemiurge. There have been quite a few threads and posts and those two suggestions. Put their damage up high so they are actually dangerous and can hurt other DG's, but at the same time dont give them 1k hp so killing them seems pointless (as it takes too long and by the time they are dead they just re-summon them). However both points have to be used, not just one of them. There were Oak Spirits before which v.high damage but also had v.high hp, so they were op. If we are going to make them dangerous and give them high damage, they need to be easy to kill.

Be nice to have the buttons back for each individual minion type. When I want my minion group to charge, I don't want the priests to join in!

Personally, I'd prefer fewer minions, but having higher damage and higher hp to compensate. If you set their hp too low but damage high they become disproportionately difficult to Demigods that lack high AE damage, but trivial to those that do.

As a Torchbearer, I wouldn't care how much damage the QoT's Shamblers can do if I can Rain of Ice + Freeze Nova + Rain of Ice and kill every creep and minion anyway. But that doesn't work for Regulus, or Sedna, or UB..

That's why I'd rather have fewer of them so Demigods focused on single-target DPS wouldn't be overwhelmed by the numbers, and at the same time AE Demigods wouldn't trivialize them quite so much.

You could use them as a screen if their was collision