BoM or MgS? (in General)

Char here. A BoM would give about 900K ST and a good amount of enc, along with a small amount of AC, whereas a MgS would add an additional 30% protection on top of the 26% from my RoBF, bringing the total reduction to about 48.2%. On the other hand, by doing so, I forfeit AMF, and thus become extremely vulnerable to decay. (My AMF is about 500K.)

Decay is probably your biggest worry as a single minion.

I'd go with the BoM. Extra strength and therefore extra damage. Damage is pretty much key for a single minion right?

Considering you're an archer, I don't Decay is that big of a problem as you two are making it out to be :)

No, it's probably not as big a worry; and you can, if your damage output is enough to finish battles in ranged, avoid it altogether as Flamey points out.

It's often not. Whenever I run into a decent evasion or a wall with 350+ AC, I never finish the fight in ranged.

Obviously evasion is another story; but the only way to take out a wall more quickly is to do more damage. You've already got the protection against a lot of decays, so go for the BoM...

The problem is, I also die a lot to ranged DD. I get hit for upwards of 500K/round, which is pretty devastaing if combined with GA.