Sour Staff is my fav, even though I run wiz so rarely. 2 Potent spark (nice with Linear) 2 acid Jet (my fav) and 2 acid blast (less favorite). Actually with the buff to Potent spark this makes me want to dust off my 3 D-wiz build just to sour it up (and use my hard bought Heartripper!) Also now that a saw the post "balance" build, for the last guy I would suggest subbing in an Electroporter Novice, for the arcane skill and then a Ring Of Appropriation for one of the sensate rings. you lose a 1 gust and 1 dimentional but gain an extra trait and possible extra damage for the jumpsparks and hard to block for the gusts. Not that this evil build needs any additional help... mmmm zappy old men.
I would recommend this. Telekinesis is insanely useful, and Spark traits make Gusts/TK hard to block, which is always nice. Change: 1 Little zap 1 Squeamish 2 Gusts of War 2 Dimensional Traveller Becomes: 1 Gusts of War 2 Telekinesis 1 Dimensional Traveller 1 Spark Inductor 1 Spark Generator Maybe by looking at that, you can FEEL how nice the second set of cards is. You can also look at it like this: Trade Squeamish for Spark Generator Trade Dimensional T. for Spark Inductor Trade Little Zap for Telekinesis Trade Gusts of War for Telekinesis Overall your biggest loss is one Gusts of War. But what you gain is key, and since you don't have a priest attachments aren't an issue.
I'm old (relatively) and stubborn (what do yo mean VT is only step 1?), I think of handicap traits as different from beneficial traits, but yes net 0 in terms of traits. And considering squeamish is rarely a negative... I forgot what I was going to say. I did make a wiz build based on Punishing Bolt, Winds of War and Wall of Fire maximizing runestone's squeamish since the only time it matters if I am going to try to kill with winds of war, which ain't gonna happen too much. I am considering swapping in a sensate ring to get Gusts of war instead, but i see no reason to have little zap, unless the trade off is a being able to have a second heartripper... but based on my failure to adjust to a post balance game i don't know if i would take my advice.