Sacrosanct
Legend
I'd like to see more effort put into your guide, with your thoughts on each aspect of the wizard's class abilities at various levels, choices along the way, and each spell at the various levels. I'd like to see what situations you think of that are applicable, good and bad, to those abilities and options and spells. It takes effort I know, and time, but it's something I genuinely want to see. You're obviously under no obligation to provide it, but it doesn't hurt to ask.
I'm afraid you won't get that from me. I don't mean that to sound like a jerk or anything. I say it because my philosophy of gameplay is that PCs are rather personal to an individual player, and game tables have styles of play that run the gammut. There is no way I could come up with an entire guide about the best optimized combinations because it has no appeal to me to do so and is very much dependent on environmental factors you can't possibly predict. My philosophy is that first and foremost, players should play a character and all that comes with that (spell selection, attribute allocation, etc) to be unique what kind of PC that player envisions, and that is different from player to player. Sometimes much different. It doesn't do me much good to say this is a great combination of spells/abilities when that player might be in an environment where none of those are relevant.
That's why I am vague in my responses, because the game can cover millions of different scenarios that all have an impact to how I personally would build my character and what spells I would learn. The thing is, is that I don't know what those are until I play the game. It's the same reason I almost never plan out my PC for several levels ahead, let alone all the way up to level 20. The choices I make from level to level are entirely based on what has actually happened in the game so far.
That's why I don't spend a lot of time coming up with guides. I'd much rather spend my time creating adventures, new monsters/concepts, and campaign settings.