There are a bunch of items you can buy that will help a lot. Unusually many of these have a required level. Generally they are purchased from vendors, but some are created through trade skills, quested or dropped.
I am of course talking about spells! Don't feel obliged to buy them all though.
A staff of temperate flux is great; insta click fire/cold debuff. Great for tagging mobs or building aggro for kites. Speaking of kites, Jboots are also useful.
Early levels have decent hp, park yourself into a corner and you can PB AoE yourself up.
I also found a lost staff of the scorned to be a decent melee weapon to begin with (before your melee skills start to get left behind and meditate starts to become powerful). Keep it for higher levels as it is also a mana free group port to nek forest (just off EC).
These are the items I've most enjoyed on my wizard. Peg cloak and fishbone earring also good.
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