[enjchanter]

The answer is absolutely not.

Acquiring more gear on a wizard will enable you to do almost nothing you couldn't do with ec gear

Atleast when you get bis gear on an enc or necro, you're improving your safety and QoL while soloing or becoming more tanky where you can actually tap tank or rune tank stuff that would slap you around before.

Or if you're a monk/tank you become much more capable of holding your own solo or low man. Geared knights are great for doing things like fungi king or drusella.

A bis wizard still doesn't gain any of these benefit even with proportionally better gear.

Their primary solo style doesn't involve getting hit or even really risking getting hit and your mana pool with likely never be big enough to really kill anything solo that matters. You won't fit into any low man groups besides aoeing with bards but there's basically no reason to do that anywhere after you're 60.

Consider what the gear you're buying will enable you to do that you couldn't do without it.

If casting 2 extra nukes per fight is worth it to you then by all means go ahead but don't say no one warned you.