Diablo 4 Season 11 Wizard Builds Should Avoid These Skills Like The Plague

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It doesn't happen that often Diablo 4 players want to avoid using specific skills as most have their place in some kind of build. However, in Diablo 4 In Season 11, the best Witcher builds are probably better off spending their skill points elsewhere once they hit level 60. While these skills aren't necessarily bad—far from it, in fact—the Witcher has access to an even more powerful setup without them in Season 11.

While the overall performance level of the build Diablo 4 Season 11 will probably be lower without Chaos Armor and Chaos Perks, a few builds can still thrive with the fantastic new Uniques this season. Spiritborn and Rogue are in the best class position Diablo 4 Season 11, but players shouldn't sleep on The Witcher either. With the new Orsivane Unique Mace looks like a must-have weapon for several Warlock builds, but requires players to avoid any defensive skills to get the most out of this Unique.

Diablo 4 Season 11 Warlocks should keep defensive skills off their action bar

Flame shield
Frost Nova
Ice armor
Teleport yourself

There are four defensive skills on the Sorcerer's Skill Tree Diablo 4and most builds tend to incorporate at least one into their combat rotation. Because the Witcher is usually one of the Diablo 4For the more fragile classes, defensive skills are an important part of building survival. With Orsivan, Diablo 4 Wizards still have access to the benefits of these defensive skills, but they reap even greater rewards by keeping them off their action panel.

The wizard's new unique mace, Orsivane, automatically grants defensive skill spells

Orsivane's unique mace
- +133 Intelligence
- +457 Maximum lifespan
- +75.0% non-physical damage
- +4 to basic skills
- Unique Affix: Gain 20-40% for each defensive skill not on your action bar[x] increase damage and gain the associated enchantment effect.

With a total of four defensive skills, Diablo 4 Warlocks who don't have any on their action bars can get a 160% overall damage boost with Orsivane's Unique Affix. Additionally, they still have access to all four defensive skill enchantment effects as long as they keep them off the action panel. These magical skills include:

Defense skill	Enchantment effect
Flame shield	Flame Shield automatically activates when you take fatal damage. This can only happen once every 120 seconds.
Frost Nova	Lucky Hit: Your magic skills have a 30% chance to release Frost Nova when you hit enemies.
Ice armor	You have a 5% chance to use ice armor on hit.
Teleport yourself	Evade is replaced by a short range teleport at 17.0 (14.0 at Rank 5) second Cooldown.

These Sorcerer Builds can take full advantage of Orsivane in Diablo 4 Season 11

Magician with ball lightning
A crackling energy wizard
Wizard of Ice Shards

Since Orsivane is a one-handed mace, builds that use a one-handed weapon in the Warlock's main hand and Focus in his hand will be most successful. Orb Lightning Warlocks get the most out of using Orsivane as they can use Unique Focus Okun's Catalyst alongside it for an AoE ball lightning that surrounds the Warlock and damages nearby enemies. Even though Cracking Energy and Ice Shards Sorcerers don't have such strong synergy with Orsivane, they can still use it effectively.

Usually these builds need more defensive skills on the action bar to be effective. However, keeping them off the action bar in Season 11 increases the building's overall damage and opens the door to using more offensive skills, giving the class an even bigger damage bonus from the Sorcerer's Elemental Synergies passive. Additionally, having the enchantment effects of these skills for free makes up for their primary effects not being available on the action bar.