1b) This one I agree with. It would be good to know how much eitr you have before needing to use it.

Otherwise, I don't think skeletons were meant to do all of your fighting for you. More like run some interference to give a solo player some breathing room. Maybe that's the intended method for a solo player to get to a soldier's backside. (haha) Skeletons are limited on purpose.

But if you're going to spend all that time leveling it to 50 then you've done the work so you should get the reward.