Decided on a pure wizard and writing down a pre build on microsoft notepad.
As a side note before you reply please keep the discussion based on a pure wizard only, and no connection to in game equipment, so i dont have to navigate obsolete information.
Your on the character creation screen, you have access to all the spells / talent points of a max pure wizard, what are the spells / talents that are mandatory to creating the strongest wizard with the resources that are available.
Thanks