I am not a new player to the game, but a new player to the life school. I am trying to get some information from experienced life wizards about a solid PvE build. I do solo quite a bit, but do also have some friends I quest with from time to time. I've been trying to think of something solid, but also maybe a bit different from the constant feint/tower stuff I have done in the past. I am also not really interested in storm "for the damage" type posts. My main is storm, and I want to avoid it.
I have Fire, Myth, Ice, and Balance mastery amulets.
So, I can still learn feint, and tower shields, but I can also train a second school for the 4 pip attacks.
Myth is nice, since it also uses the Spirit Blades. However, if you are going to train tower shield, which is great, if you have an Ice Mastery amulet, you can train in ice to get Blizzard.
So many possibilities, it is really up to the individual.