Wizard Snare Resists

[Splorf22]

So I have been experimenting with my Wizard again and he's now 29. I was told this was the Glorious Level At Which Everything Gets Easier but so far I haven't found that. I am trying the gnolls outside Paw. Right now it it looks something like:

cast snare -> land on 3/4 mobs -> run more -> snare the outlier -> spend 30 seconds getting them circled up, which is hard because they are quite separated and moving very slowly -> snare again -> land on 3/4 mobs -> snare again -> land on a different 3/4 mobs -> nuke

Thats 300 mana on AE snare which even with my twink manapool is over 15%. I regularly fail to finish stuff off this way. When I just run away, it takes forever as I have to run all the way across the zone, but I always have plenty of mana.

Curious if anyone has a good solution to this. Although I have to be honest, the wizard is pretty boring anyway, and not very effective in groups.