Questions from a prospective new player

[thraxll]

Hi all. I played eq on Rallos Zek for several years back in the day. More recently Ive been on blue p99 and for the last couple of months on the live TLPs. I'm thinking of rolling on red and had a couple of questions I was hoping you guys would answer.

I like playing casters. Back in the day on Rallos Zek everyone just stacked resist gear and caster damage was rather gimp. Is this how it works on red 99?

I often enjoy solo play. Assuming casters aren't completely gimp, which would make for a better solo ganker/stalker, druid or wizard? Ive kidn of boiled my choices down to those two.

Any other suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!