Need Help, Sick of Dying

Hey everyone. I'm what you may call a casual player, even though I played a lot at some point. I have a problem and am hoping you may help.

My necromancer is lvl 90. She has decent stats (or at least I think she has):

- 3555 HP
- 1834 shield
- 74% fire res.
- 75% cold res.
- 57% lightning res.
- 27% chaos res.

And yet many bosses one-shot me (such as Atziri). I don't know what else I can do to toughen up. Sure, I can increase my HP a few hundred points more but it wouldn't change anything. This whole instant death thing has soured me from the game. What am I doing wrong?

Capped elemental resists i.e. 75% fire / cold / lightning is a must, you should have aimed to cap them around level 60-70 not running uncapped all this time. Also 4,5-5k life is a must on a build that doesn't go for full energy shield (i.e. not chaos inoculation or anything like that). More life is better, but not every build can get very high amounts, some builds can get 7k+ some cannot so hard to say.

Atziri can 1-shot you even if you fix the above if:
- your build is not immune to reflect (sorry)
- you stand on the fire circles
- you attack the clone that holds the mirror when she splits into 4

Your characters are hidden (private) by default, but if you don't play in SSF there's no reason why you couldn't just trade with players for items that allow you to get more life and cap resists.

Also you didn't mention if your character has any other means of defense like:
- block
- dodge
- defensive flasks
- guard skills
- endurance charges
- life leech or regen
- mind over matter
etc.

You also didn't mention what build / skill are you playing, if it's typical minion necromancer build that would explain how you actually managed to even level to 90 with non capped resists and such low amounts of life, I'm actually surprised you didn't get stuck around lvl 80 from xp loss from dying.

Grats for perseverance, but if you want to fix dying you need to find out why do you have so low stats. Are you using too many uniques that don't have life / resists on them? Are you having life on every slot except weapon(s)? Do you have enough life from talent tree? Did you utilize your ascendancy effectively? (There are nodes that give resists and other buffs on necromancer.)

But hard to say anything without knowing what build it is and how does it look like. Compare your character to other players that play the same build on poe.ninja or in some forum guides for that build and see how much life they have and from what sources.

Thank you for the reply. You're right, I don't have a lot of +HP items. Maybe I should look into that.