Wizard is the only class I've ever played completely AFK. I would go out and dump my entire mana bar, get 20% of my level, and then go outside and work on my garden or mow the yard, and come back and dump my mana again. It felt really cool and like I was barely playing the game, while still easily leveling a character.
I think Dark Elf is OP for Wizard because of this. Being able to hide while you AFK is really nice. Also even if you aren't afk it's really nice because you don't have to waste mana killing random greens that aggro'd you. Magicians and necromancers don't have to worry about this as much because their pet can kill the green for them, but Wizards don't have that luxury.
Also people saying that Wizard is boring need to keep in mind that quad kiting is fun and unique, they get some cool clicky nukes that make the class more fun (everyone should get a solist's icy wand asap), and the fact that you can teleport anywhere you want is actually pretty fun. Like I log on some characters, and get bored and log off because I don't feel like riding a boat or running across 6 zones to check something out. With Wizard you don't have to worry about that as much. Also I've never raided as a wizard, but being a major raid dps sounds like fun to me, lol.
Magician... is probably fun though. Having a badass pet and being able to solo a lot of stuff does seem cool, don't get me wrong, but I can do the same thing on a Necromancer much easier. Magician is basically a poor man's necromancer and summon bot. Wizard is at least a little bit more unique because they can teleport around, quad kite, play completely afk, still have major appeal to raids etc. I remember when green was new one of my wizard friends got hired by a guild just to teleport people to plane of hate. They also got a ton of free loot.. since no wizards, lol.
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