A wizard is you...

[Pyrion]

You could use a druid. Nuke damage & efficiency is less, but not much so. But you will have a ton more utility and quadding is also a viable option, just like for wizards.

So you can play that druid just like a wizard if you want with only a little bit less efficiency. If you want efficiency (way more than wizard pre 29) you can just charm kill or root/rot. The only other things a wizard can do that a druid cant are translocates and stuns that also work indoors. The things a druid can do that a wizard can't are a lot: Buffing, Healing, PLing, SOW and wolf form (which also gives faction opportunities), DoTs, Charms, Tracking, foraging...

I think that wizards really need a buff. Of course that's not going to happen.