How to deal with necromancers (“rises undead” affix)

path-of-exile

They typically hide behind their minions and sometimes they get them back to life faster than you kill them. The necromancer might even be out of your range.
How to safely reach them in this case ?

Sin Lord with rises undead affix

Best Answer

The easiest solution is to spam AoE (there are decent amount of AoE's for any class that will come handy) skills to kill him first. They die very fast, so they're really not a problem if focused first.

Ranger

Since you're playing a ranger the best skill to use would be Rain of Arrows, it's a skill where you shoot an arrow into air, then a whole rain of arrows falls to the ground, the thing is that the arrows fall exactly where you pointed your mouse cursor before using it, this way not only you can hit monsters that are behind other monsters, you can also use it to attack monsters over walls (and other barricades). The skill is also spamable, you can shoot another volley right after the first hits the ground. Another useful skills for this case would be Poison Arrow and Split Arrow.

Melee

If you're using melee hero then Leap Slam is a great choice, you can use it to jump over enemies and get to the necromancer. If you're more of a dexterity melee and are using daggers, claws or 1H swords then Whirling Blades is a good skill to use to get to the necromancer as it lets you dive throught the enemies.

Mage

If you're an mage (INT) character then you can use Firestorm, Ice Spear or Lighting Warp.