Wizard is a comfort raiding class and with Velious you may want to have a Rogue for raiding anyway. A rogue will also get you into end-game dungeon groups and you get your epic with ease, unlike with the Wiz epic which is pretty difficult to score. Since the class isn't popular you'd think it wouldn't be that hard but nah, the top guilds are full of wiz alts.
The early levels are atrocious but can be made easier with the soloist's wand. Leveling overall is slow and generally revolves around 6 minute camps. Quadding now is better available even if they nerfed some spots. There's less competition for locations and you have all the spells you need, you will need jbots though. Quadding gets boring but it's fun doing it a few levels. Both 6min camps and quadding makes the wiz an excellent afk-leveler.
I wouldn't recommend Wizard since a Druid can do everything a Wizard can except exel at raid target burst. When the option is Mage though, eh, I find mages to be possibly even more dull and that's another class which goes nowhere once you hit 60.
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