Physical durability for mages

[sir_spanksalot]

I’m speccing panetti because of the +10 skill points in the base effect and a couple of +skill in its upgrades. Same with trozen.
By augmenting all my gear all my resistances are now topped at 80% and I don’t die anymore from physical.
To top that, with this build I 1-shot all enemies 3-5 levels above me on Nightmare so idk build itself seems to be working just great

I’ve played Inquisitor’s Seal up to level 60, until I realized its quite bad because you have to stay inside of it. Now I just kite enemies while having them frozen 24/7 from Rune of Hagarrad and Trozen. With my off-hand equipped its freeze duration is equal to its cooldown.

I would still get seal. It’s honestly an amazing skill.

Besides, not all enemies can be frozen.

[Fruneiros]

I would still get seal. It’s honestly an amazing skill.

Besides, not all enemies can be frozen.

I’ve played it a lot and my experience is that its only good against stopping small damage numbers, so basically from big groups swarming around you. But I never had troubles with small groups because of Arcanist’s + Inquisitor’s AoE potential. When I max out the Seal it stops 280 damage per hit, which is almost nothing at level 85+, especially from heroes and bosses.
Basically said, I don’t find it remotely worth spending 12 skill points on it. Especially if it would cost me my skill points on Trozan’s Sky Shards, which for me deal 40k damage AoE each, which is quite a lot for a 2s cooldown cheap spell that also freezes enemies.

[Weyu]

You should really max Deadly Aim and one of the Exclusive Skills though, it’ll make your build better in the long run. In your case, either Star Pact or Aura of Censure should be good.