Two of the mobs for the wizard 1.0 though are... a bit of a pain. Not at all difficult to kill anymore, but have a long respawn (12 hours), drop the item needed only rarely, and are still camped heavily, as they share 1.0 drops with other classes.
The pre-quest, I think, while I bit of running about, would be a lot less frustrating.
As luck would have it, too, the change to spell research leaves me with a whole lot of runes that need a new home (probably a vendor). I'll see if the "Test of Research" runes are among them.
I'll have to check and see which ones I have. I don't know which of the research runes are especially rate - I only read through the prequest text on the way to the actual 1.5 walkthrough - so I don't know if I have any rare ones or not.
One if them IS nodrop though, so you'll still have to pick that one up. (Drops in "hard" LDoNs.)
I have a Blue Crystal Staff rotting in my bank if you need the MQ for the 1.0. If you do decide to do it, just let me know so I can save you some hassle.
I'm missing Rune of Cascade and Rune of Flash from my collection. No sign of either of them in the bazaar, so it could be they are the rare ones about which you were speaking.