Diablo 4 Season 11 Wizard builds should avoid these skills like the plague

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This is often not the case Diablo 4 Players may want to avoid using special skills, as most have their place in some sort of build. However, in Diablo 4 Season 11, the best mage builds are probably better off spending their skill points elsewhere as they make their way towards level 60. While these skills aren't bad – far from it, in fact – the Wizard can access a more powerful setup without them in Season 11.

While the overall strength level of construction Diablo 4 While Season 11 will likely be lacking without Chaos Armor and Chaos Perks, many builds can still thrive thanks to the great new uniques this season. Spiritborn and Rogue are positioned to be the best classes Diablo 4 Season 11, but players shouldn't sleep on Wizards either. The new Orsivane Unique Mace appears to be a must-use weapon for many mage builds, but it requires players to avoid any defensive skills to get the most out of this unique.

Diablo 4 Season 11 Wizards must keep defensive skills from their action bar

Flame shield
Frost Nova
Ice Armor
Teleport

There are four defensive skills in the mage's skill tree Diablo 4And most builds tend to include at least one in their combat rotation. While the magician turns out to be one Diablo 4For the more vulnerable classes, defensive skills are an important part of building survival. with Orsivane, Diablo 4 Sorcerers can still access the benefits of these defensive skills enchantments, but reap greater rewards by closing them off their action bar.

Magician's new Orsivane unique mace automatically grants defensive skill hypnosis

Orsivane unique mace
- +133 intelligence
- +457 max life
- +75.0% non-physical damage
- +4 to core skills
- Unique Suffix: For each defensive skill not on your action bar, you deal 20-40%[x] Gain increased damage and its associated charm effect.

With a total of four defensive skills, Diablo 4 Mages without on their action bars can get a total of 160% damage boost with Orsivane's Unique Affix. Additionally, they can still access the enchantment effects of all four of these defensive skills as long as they keep them off the action bar. These seductive skills include:

Defensive skills	attraction effect
Flame shield	Flame Shield automatically activates when you take lethal damage. Can happen only once every 120 seconds.
Frost Nova	Lucky Hit: Your Conjuration skill has a 30% chance to unleash a Frost Nova when it hits enemies.
Ice Armor	Upon being hit, you have a 5% chance to apply Ice Armor.
Teleport	Evade has been replaced with a short-range teleport at 17.0 (14.0 at Rank 5) second cooldown.

These wizard builds can take full advantage of Orsivane in Diablo 4 Season 11

Ball Lightning Wizard
Crackling energy magician
Ice Shards Sorcerer

Since Orsivane is a one-handed mace, builds that use a one-handed weapon in the mage's main hand and focus in their off hand will be most successful. Force Lightning mages are going to benefit the most from using Orsivane, as they can use the unique Focus Okun's Catalyst with it for an AoE ball lightning that surrounds the mage and damages nearby enemies. While Crackling Energy and Ice Shards Sorcerers don't have a very powerful synergy with Orsivane, they can still use it effectively.

Typically, these builds require multiple defensive skills on the action bar to be effective. However, keeping them out of the Action Bar in Season 11 increases the overall damage of the build and instead opens the door for more offensive skills to use, giving the class an additional damage bonus from the Sorcerer's Elemental Synergy passive. Also, at any cost the enchantment effects of these skills make their primary effects unavailable on the action bar.