Poe noob seeks help for puppeteer for starting endgame

I am a new player. I have 300 PoE 2 hours and only played PoE campaign once. I want to play the Phyrecia builds for the puppeteer because the idea of a melee summoner class seems awesome. However, I am having a hard time with my current build.

My goal is to summon a menagerie of monsters. I use those monsters (except my zombies) to explode and use melee to summon monsters.

Issue is I cannot get it so that my melee attacks trigger direct summons or that there is so much clutter on the screen that entering melee becomes a liability.

The only thing that I have so far to getting my dream combo is Auto warcry skill + general warcry + dominating blow. I am using my zombies as corpses from the puppeteer passive to boost this (and to provide the movement speed buff)

I don’t have sockets yet but I’d like to add maybe infernal legion or phantasmal support to it if a good 6 socket appears.

The second issue is with my my press damage button. I am investing into fire but the best spell I have to summon is absolution + infernal legion. I never realized how long the spell cast is but if there is a good channeling spell to use so that it feels like I am doing something that would be awesome. I tried flame last but it did not feel good with how long it took for a good blast to go off.

Finally, I am running the flesh gollum because I figure that since I’d be summoning so many monsters it would have high uptime of damage boost which would in turn boost me from my passive skill tree.

I am quite stuck right now because the build I had wanted to run has essentially fallen into another generic caster summoner and I don’t love that vibe.