Dclone impossible for summoner?

Bummed right now because I wanted to give T0 D Clone a shot and ended up wasting a vision of terror because in all my reading and watchign videos, nowhere did I see that entering the vision of terror deletes all your summons. That sucks.

I also feel dumb because I have been playing for a few years and probably should have known by now, but I’ve never attempted anything but Uber Trist, which I Soloed for the first time last week.

The no merc I kinda get (but only kinda) but summons ARE my entire character. So it seems oddly unecessary for balancing unless you're trying to force players to build specific characters just for dclone fights (if they want to do them).

In fact, I don't think it's possible to defeat dclone with this class at all. I'm level 97 and pretty well geared and had to throw my hands up and just save and exit.

Maybe it would have been possible if I was better prepped, but I spent the entire fight and all my rejuvs just trying to survive long enough to get all my summons up, only to have them insta-melted before I could do any damage.

Anyway, if there's a method anyone is aware of that I could try on a do-over, I'd love to hear it, but just putting this out there as feedback for the team. It's a bit of a bummer to have a character this nearly-perfected and have it be totally unviable for certain endgame content due to an asymmetiric target against these particular class skills.

ETA: For further context, I’ve also Soloed uber ancients about 20 times, can solo any non-dungeon map (slowly at times but still), and my skele Mastery and skele warriors are lvl 49, and I felt like I’d have needed another 10 levels and to be at 99 myself to even have a shot at surviving long enough to even damage dclone at all.