New alt - Advice for what to play

[Faiding]

Keep in mind that when wizards are bashed on the forums, it's because of the following assumptions:

That there is no Bard/Enchanter in the group
The Wizard is mindlessly spamming their latest nuke (or doesn't manage mana)
The group has no access to high level buffs (which is quite rare considering most groups are alts)

Wizards can be very frustrating without mana regen and before Harvest, but are very competitive if played well and have C/C2/Bard regen. I never encountered a group that went out of their way to decline a wizard when I leveled one. People aren't as elitist/unreasonable in game as they are on the forums.

So the old adage of "play what you like" still rings true.