Your best bet is to refamiliarize yourself with the mechanics and gameplay a bit then figure out what you want out of your class. Everybody on this server is so min/max crazy that everybody forgets what they actually want out of their gameplay experience and they just roll the "best" class before really learning the mechanics and content of the game.
Wizard isn't an awful first toon but know that you won't be invited to groups. You can earn some money when you get some ports and if you are intrepid you can have fun and be very useful in the notoriously tricky and dangerous mid-level dungeons that nobody really goes to because nobody can really stay alive that well even with a total faceroll group composition. Anybody else who knows content and the mechanics well are usually on their 4th toon and blowing through their levels either by powerlevel or by knowing where the best XP is.
The only classes that are let into groups without reluctance are Warrior, Cleric, Shaman, Enchanter, Monk, and Rogue. With any others you will face difficulty finding a group. There's a serious sickness on this server in regards to the more odd classes and its not going to change. The truth is every class is capable of great contributions in a group in the hands of a skilled player, however that is a huge caveat.
No matter how much people want to theorize and crunch DPS numbers, a dead group gets no XP. Remember that Iksar Monk you that wiped your pickup group the other night? How about the Cleric that instead of hanging in there for a tough fight he just gated and left everybody else for dead? Remember those 2 caster mobs that that Warrior pulled and they wasted him before he even got back to camp then they proceeded to waste the rest of your group with comical ruthlessness? PUGs wipe all the time, no matter the composition. I have seen horrors few would even believe.
Also know that Chardok powerlevel has been mostly abandoned at this point so that is no longer a viable option for getting yourself through the high 50s.
If you're having fun on Wizard keep going, just make sure you get your flux staff as soon as you can. If you're having fun playing and want to roll another toon you can pick another toon when you have a more informed idea of what you really want out of the game.
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