[Acillatem]

I played a WIZ on Live for 5 years and now here. I don't regret it at all.

Sustained DPS (ie XP groups) we suck.
Burst DPS (ie raids) we rock.

HOWEVER, you can help boost your overall effectiveness in a group via stuns. Stun-locking healers / casters can help reduce the length of a fight, and/or reduce the amount of healing/rezzing the CLR will have to do.

Of course evacs etc. Basically a WIZ is good for XP grinds when you need an "Oh Shit!" button. We can either burn a bad pull down ASAP, or we can evac - either way we're the only class capable of doing that.

If you do more than just sit on yer ass and nuke every now and then - people will take notice and you will make friends and get groups on yer own.

Sometimes tho, that's all you end up doing.....single pulls etc, no casters - ya you might spend all nite just twiddling thumbs casting Draught of *** all nite.

Other times you are on the ball root parking adds, stun locking healers, burning the shit out of a 5 mob pull to help make it more manageable for the ENC as far as CC etc.

Either way - the problem with the WIZ class is 95% of the WIZ I see fall into the "I'll just click my nuke button every so often and watch this movie", and only like 5% actually make good use of their spell-book.