Coming Back: Velious+Wizard+PvP

[Farzo]

With Velious coming out and Semester ending sooncam looking to come back and try EQ PvP again; but this time I wont be playing a melee mainly due to having 300-400ms and it been a huge disadvantage when fighting people on 20-100ms.

Anyhow:

Obviously playing a caster on a higher ping would be better than a melee so been tossing up between playing my 54 druid or leveling a Wizard up.

The 54 Druid would drop me right back in to the raid scene and has mor utlity than a Wizard; but I think it'd be beneficial playing the Wizard 1-50 for the 2-3 odd weeks it takes to get a better grasp on caster PvP and for the added DPS on raids in Velious.

So Question is: for Velious PvP are Wizards decent or just melee fodder? Or will you end up been a sad lonely Azrael player hunting under-geared/leveling players to 2 shot to get some PvP action?