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Originally Posted by keterys

*WIZARD*
B- / Bigby's Icy Grasp
C+ / Fireball
A / Stinking Cloud
C- / Web

Bigby's Icy Grasp: This spell is quite effective for hindering one enemy at a time for a battle and provides a good alternative to using an at-will for increased damage. Potentially costly in actions.
Fireball: Quite large area.
Stinking Cloud: Good sized area of solid damage, including automatic damage. The ability to move it is extremely powerful. The line of sight blocking can be useful or harmful, but I'll grudgingly call it a tactical plus.
Web: This spell can be quite good if there is a very specific area you don't want people to go, such as for using it defensively to protect someone. That said, it's a bit too easy to avoid being immobilized or to escape the area.

In picking out dailies for a wizard, I found that the action economy mattered a lot. In an important battle, I might want to blow two or three daily powers. That means that I don't want to be caught with multiple powers that require a sustain to be effective. Obviously a wizard has it easier on that front since he can swap out which 'sustain' powers are memorized on any given day.

Web might be under-graded a little. It can be positively brutal in combination with a zone or control power from another PC. I watched an elite get chewed up by a cleric's guardian of the faith when he failed his save to escape for a couple of rounds running.