Leveling research. (wiz)

[Crawdad]

Like others have said, its far easier to dump your unused skill points into research than trying to use practice runes/words.

Going from 1-170 will cost you about 2-3k plat. Whether or not this is cost effective is up to you. Personally, I got sick of looking for other people to do my combines for me and didn't mind the pricetag.