• Mounted Combat is great in any game where you can ride a horse. You rated Longstrider as great for rangers, and riding a horse is just plain better. Unlike other classes, it conveniently doesn't go obsolete for wizards.
• Improved Familiar means you get familiars with hands and skill points. Can we abuse that? YES WE CAN.
• Toughness is not a blue feat. What the hell are you thinking? Did 3.5 clerics take Improved Toughness? Because PF wizards are just as tough. No, no, no, no, no.
• Loremaster isn't that hot since you lose HP, at least three feats, and some specialist mojo to get...maybe four feats and a crappy feat equivalent. Wooooo.
• Eldritch Knight is bad for gish wizards. It's bad for pretty much everyone.
• You host your shit on the PFRPG site, why do you not link to it.
• Riding dogs are beasts from Summon Monster II. Riding dogs are inexplicably under-CR, and this goes for the summoning lists. SNA2 and SM2 are all about the tripping attack dogs from hell (possibly literally, in the case of SM2).
• Fog Cloud is completely useless. When would you want Fog Cloud instead of Web?
• Locate Object is a Bonded Item winner. Super situational but exceedingly handy when you need it. Also decent as a scroll.
• Flaming Sphere isn't a blast; it's a 5' wide Wall of Flame. Use it to control the battlefield, not just burn a dude.
• Gust of Wind is Win Fight Against Swarms. Just sayin'.
• Make Whole and Knock are Bonded Item winners as well. Tongues is another Bonded Item winner. As is Water Breathing.
• Keep in mind that Blink's disadvantages go away under the same circumstances as Invisibility's; you can summon, buff, BFC, etc. with no risk. Shame about nerfing Blinking rogues.
• Globe of Lesser Invulnerability turns off buffs and debuffs, which are rarely top-level. You're seriously underrating it.
• Confusion isn't as good as you rate it. How many enemies can you fit into a 15' burst? You'll only have a 1/4 chance of one of those enemies getting the attack confusion, and then they need a confused ally to be the nearest person. This is situationally useful, but Fear is better if you want AOE will-save-or-lose at this level, and Stinking Cloud and Black Tentacles are better if you want "Those guys waste about two turns making fools of themselves."
• Illusory Wall is an illusion you can leave behind, and an utterly believable one. It's situational, yeah, but even if you're not going to make a get-away with it, it's a one-way mirror, since you can't see through it even if you disbelieve. It has in-combat uses and out-of-combat uses.
• Rogues would beg to differ that Greater Invisibility is not an upgrade. Definitely not a red spell for them after the Blink nerf.
• Divine casters, melee folks, and many rogues appreciate being enlarged. That's enough to justify Mass Enlarge.
• Break Enchantment is another Bonded Item winner...
• "Then the combat use of lifting someone in the air, turning them backwards, and letting the party rogue at them (they get a will save to avoid this)." Or the combat use of snapping all the necks of your opponents with Telekinesis. Or maybe we shouldn't just make BS up and instead use the spell as written.
• Permanent Magic Fang is worthless because Greater Magic Fang is hours/level and even the ranger can cast that at level 10 and have it last most, if not all, of an adventuring day.
• Forceful Hand is crazy bad. Like seriously what are you thinking. Anything that would actually want to close to you can bull rush it 10 or 15 feet easily. (Except that it doesn't have a printed CMD to bull rush it back, seriously WTF.) +20 CMB is pretty lame, when you realize that CMDs at this level range from 33 (on foes with plenty of ranged mojo) to 49(!!!). It only gets worse as you level up.
  
• Create Undead is crazy useless because "created undead are not automatically under the control of their animator." Create Greater Undead sucks for the same reason.
• Disintegrate is "Polymorph Obstacle into Dust" and it does that job Really Well. Its failing as a combat spell doesn't really enter into it.
• Stone to Flesh is grisly, not grizzly.
• Statue is great, what are you talking about. Turning back and forth is an unlimited free action, and effects that are currently working on the statue are not suspended. So you step out of statue form, hit a dude or cast whatever, then turn into a statue. So this is hour/level hardness 8 for anyone who doesn't mind not making AoOs.
  
• Dominate Monster is a permanent free cohort of whatever can't make a will save against you. You're rating it as a save-or-die, but it's not that. It's save-or-join-the-party-forever-or-until-we-replace-you.
  
• Shapechange is crap. The only utility it offers over Dragon Shape III is the ability to switch element types, or to dumpster dive for whatever goofy regeneration abilities Paizo accidentally gives to a giant, dragon, or plant. Right now, that's nearly worthless.

I think you answered your own question (why I recommend this for Wizards, not Rangers).  Generally I don't like mounted combat because horses can't follow you half the places you go.  Phantom steed doesn't have that problem.  This is also why I recommended Mounted Combat for Bards.  Mounted Combat + Phantom Steed is a good combo.

You can't compare 3.5 to Pathfinder.  Pathfinder Wizards aren't as tough as Pathfinder Clerics.  Extra HP are always a good.  Which feats would you recommend above Toughness that I haven't already rated blue?  I don't think all that many feats are awesome Wizard options that I haven't already recommended.

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You host your shit on the PFRPG site, why do you not link to it.

I think you are mistaken - the link goes to: www.d20pfsrd.com/extras/community-creations/treatmonks-lab/test.  That should be the right place.

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Riding dogs are beasts from Summon Monster II. Riding dogs are inexplicably under-CR, and this goes for the summoning lists. SNA2 and SM2 are all about the tripping attack dogs from hell (possibly literally, in the case of SM2).

They are on Summon Monster I actually, and I agree they are by far the toughest creatures on that list (better than pretty much the whole SMII list for straight combat).  I'll mention that in the guide.  

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Fog Cloud is completely useless. When would you want Fog Cloud instead of Web?

That would require an entire thread.  I've gotten great milage from fog cloud in 3.5, and it should work just as well using the Pathfinder rules IMO.  That said, I like Web a lot too - though it got nerfed.
I guess the main difference off the top of my head is the requirement of anchor points that is the biggest Web drawback.

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Globe of Lesser Invulnerability turns off buffs and debuffs, which are rarely top-level. You're seriously underrating it.

You're discussing buffs of enemies in melee with you?  Or the buffs of your allies who moved in trying to protect you from that enemy?  It screws up both.  Also, I do have a hate-on for the 1 round/level standard action defensive buffs.  Long standing.

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Confusion isn't as good as you rate it. How many enemies can you fit into a 15' burst? You'll only have a 1/4 chance of one of those enemies getting the attack confusion, and then they need a confused ally to be the nearest person. This is situationally useful, but Fear is better if you want AOE will-save-or-lose at this level, and Stinking Cloud and Black Tentacles are better if you want "Those guys waste about two turns making fools of themselves."

The goody about confusion is that the enemies end up fighting each other.  If you have 2 enemies under the effect, if either of them gets the "attack nearest ally" result, they will both exclusively attack each other for the rest of the spell duration.  We have a Beguiler in our 3.5 group, level 16, and he still uses that spell to good effect.  The burst radius is unchanged in Pathfinder.

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Illusory Wall is an illusion you can leave behind, and an utterly believable one. It's situational, yeah, but even if you're not going to make a get-away with it, it's a one-way mirror, since you can't see through it even if you disbelieve. It has in-combat uses and out-of-combat uses.

I'll agree that in the correct situation it can be better than Silent Image - but not enough situations to warrant 3 higher spell levels IMO.  Since I've rated silent image a "must have" spell - illusionary wall becomes a bit redundant doesn't it?  Maybe a scroll?

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Rogues would beg to differ that Greater Invisibility is not an upgrade. Definitely not a red spell for them after the Blink nerf.

If you have a rogue in your party, and they have trouble getting into sneak attack position, it deserves more consideration.  Someone brought that up at Paizo too.  I guess I should add that to the comments for the spell.  Very well, will do.  I still can't recommend the spell IMO - with the viscous duration slash - I don't think it's a better spell overall than invisibility - which is 2nd level.

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Divine casters, melee folks, and many rogues appreciate being enlarged. That's enough to justify Mass Enlarge.

Got to disagree on the number of party members who are going to get milage out of enlarge.  Most rogues I've seen would consider enlarge a debuff not a buff.

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Permanent Magic Fang is worthless because Greater Magic Fang is hours/level and even the ranger can cast that at level 10 and have it last most, if not all, of an adventuring day.

I don't think you've made a strong case for "useless" IMO.

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Forceful Hand is crazy bad. Like seriously what are you thinking. Anything that would actually want to close to you can bull rush it 10 or 15 feet easily. (Except that it doesn't have a printed CMD to bull rush it back, seriously WTF.) +20 CMB is pretty lame, when you realize that CMDs at this level range from 33 (on foes with plenty of ranged mojo) to 49(!!!). It only gets worse as you level up.

I would assume CMD would be CMB+10 since they don't specify a Dex modifier.  The Elder Elementals are a bit out of whack with other creatures of similar CR (and they all show up on the CR 11 list).  
If you take Elder Elementals off the list, the CMB's range from 29-38, with 33 being the most common score.  Almost none of those creatures is as scary at range as close up IMO.

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and effects that are currently working on the statue are not suspended

Do you have a source for that?  I assumed a flying wizard (which I'm sure you will be by that level) who takes statue form is going to come crashing down messily.  
I notice Statue is not a Polymorph, so when all your equipment switches over with you, is it still active?

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Dominate Monster is a permanent free cohort of whatever can't make a will save against you. You're rating it as a save-or-die, but it's not that. It's save-or-join-the-party-forever-or-until-we-replace-you.

My main problem with the "dominate" line is one phrase in the spell description, "any subject forced to take actions against its nature receives a new saving throw with a +2 bonus."  This wording is vague enough that I would rely on the "join-the-party forever..." thing, depending on how strict your DM is in regards to the creatures "nature".

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Shapechange is crap. The only utility it offers over Dragon Shape III is the ability to switch element types, or to dumpster dive for whatever goofy regeneration abilities Paizo accidentally gives to a giant, dragon, or plant. Right now, that's nearly worthless.

yep, switch element types, switch to troll for regen, 10 times duration...that's pretty much it.  I don't think it's great, but it is better than DSIII.

I would agree [about Mounted Combat] to the point that if the campaign appears to primarily taking place in areas you can bring a horse.  If you're dungeon crawling - you're better off with something else.

I'll take a single fiendish/celestial ant drone personally...if I'm using SMII.  Like the Riding dog at level 1, it sticks out for being significantly better than the others at the same level.

25% they attack the nearest person.  However, if that nearest person was acting normally, then "Any confused character who is attacked automatically attacks its attackers on its next turn" kicks in and the next round they attack back - then the two are in an infinite attack each other loop.
If you don't get an "attack nearest" result - there is a 2/3 chance that they either stand there and babble or hit themselves in the head.  (and yes, hilarious).
However, the way it works out is that they may not all attack each other on round 1, but by round 3 you're pulling out the popcorn.
In 3.5 you could use confusion/friend to foe which did the job for you...but it's good even without that combo.

raven familiar+UMD+Silent image wand.  Standard tactic - throws up an illusionary obscuring mist - rogue knows beforehand that it's a silent image wand.
Or you cast major image, same deal.

I guess my personal experience is different from yours.  I'm in 2 campaigns right now, and in neither can I think of more than 1 character who would benifit from enlarge person (actually, in one campaign there's nobody - but the BSF is a goliath so can't be enlarged)

an extra spell per day.  Nothing big - but I did rate the spell orange.  You have convinced me to alter the wording.

If the creature is using it's attack to bull rush a spell effect, then I have trouble seeing how the spell isn't doing its job - even if it does get pushed back.

"Come join our party, we're rich and powerful - you could be too!"
That is the jist of a recommendation for me to use on a Suggestion spell.  Suggestion is a level 3 wizard spell.  If the suggestion is reasonable, then the opponent gets a penalty to the saving throw.  Duration isn't days/level, but it is 1 hr/level, surely lasting long enough for your new friend to go to sleep after a hard days adventuring...
You see why I brought that up?  If you're cow-towing to them anyways - what's with the high level?

I don't know how often you are going to switch [using Shapechange] to be honest.  Probably once per battle, then once after each battle I would guess.  (Appropriate dragon form for energy type and size, then troll to regenerate as needed).
The primary advantage of Shapechange over Form of the Dragon III (which is level 8 and I rated blue) is the 10x duration.  You can use a rod of greater extend, and you are still getting 5x the duration from shapechange.

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So it's X% to save, times 75% chance to not act, less the 25% chance of attacking nearest target when that target is a friend... Or casting "Save or don't act at all, suckers."

Look past round 1.  Bob, Doug, Tim and Horton are confused and act in that order on initiative.  On round 1 Bob hits Horton, Doug babbles incoherantly, Tim hits himself over the head, and Horton acts normally and charges the PC's.

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Most GMs won't let that nonsense fly; Silent Image as a free blindness on all foes generally doesn't last more than once in most games. "Obscure combo involving your familiar maintaining a spell for free" does not generally obviate spells that don't require ridiculous goofy support.

It is a circumstantial solution for a circumstantial situation.  Usually the party rogue isn't relying on ranged attacks in combat.  It's too inconvenient to hide - attack - hide - attack.
If the rogue is made specifically under the idea that you are going to have and cast improved invis on him every combat - that could be an OK combo - but really that would be very campaign specific - and I don't think a particularly wonderful combo either.  I don't want my wizard's first action every combat to be casting the same single target buff.

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Who's in the party?

In a 3.5 campaign (16th level) where I have a Malconvoker/IotSV, and the other party members are a whisper gnome beguiler, a Goliath fighter, and a human cleric (waste of space)
In a new Pathfinder campaign (4th level) where I have an Elf Bard (archer), and the other party members are a Half-Orc Barbarian, a human Cleric (caster - not melee), and a TWF rogue (I think a halfling - can't remember).

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But it doesn't need to push the hand back to go about its business.

If it wants to close with the party it does.

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Meh. I just don't see it as a green spell any more. The benefits are situational and small.

Anymore?  Surely you would agree that Shapechange (3.5) was a blue spell...

15' burst covers over 20 squares

Who's the 3rd?  The halfling rogue who gets -1 to hit and AC and doesn't get reach because you took away his small size advantage to make him medium sized, or me, the archer who also gets -1 to hit and AC and doesn't benifit from reach?

Well, at least we're in agreement on that [Shapechange]  (I take nothing for granted anymore.  I had a multiple posters on another forum debate me on 3.5 Polymorph "sucking")  I always figured it was a given that it was broken...thought they were being sarcastic at first.

The Pathfinder Shapechange is nowhere near the power of the 3.5 shapechange, but there is value in Dragon forms (Energy immunity, Faster fly that isn't dependant on a low HP phantom steed, blindsense, a nice AC bonus, 4 hp/level, frightful presence etc.
Yeah you can get those same benifits with a level 8 spell, but you get them for 1/10th the time.  This is like "Greater" dragonform for the duration boost.
Getting regeneration between combats, earth glide, swim etc - these aren't the primary advantage of the spell - they are just some minor add ons.
It's no time stop - but it's not a blue spell.

]I think BT is a better spell than confusion, but there are some creatures that are more likely to fail a will save than fail the grapple check, so in some situations the confusion is still better.

• Beguilers don't get Fear
• Beguilers are more likely to invest in SF(Ench) than wizards
• Beguilers can make use of their situational spells more easily because they cast spontaneously
• Your group has specifically adapted their tactics and composition to take advantage of Confusion, something you don't have to do to get results from Fear

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it has no business being rated higher than Fear, considering Fear is a larger AOE, takes 100% of the targets that fail their saves out of combat, has a rider that kicks in even if they make their save, and keeps working even if you beat the targets to death while they are affected.

I think hitting multiple opponents with Fear or Confusion is effective.  I would agree that Fear is going to be the better choice when you are given the choice, though I don't think it's as dramatically better as you claim.  The partial-effect on a failed save is definitely nice, I will 100% agree with that.  For those who fail, I think there are advantages and disadvantages to each.  Yeah, fear is awesome if they run into a corner and cower - but confusion is awesome if they all just attack each other too.  However, in neither case does it always turn out that way.

First of all (and the more minor of my two points) - by my count, Fear does not have a bigger AoE.  Yes, the 30 vs 15 may have it appear to be bigger, but if you check your templates - you'll see that cones are smaller - remember with a burst we are discussing "radius" not diameter.  A 30' cone and 15' foot burst should each cover 24 squares - so size is the same.  Shapes a bit different, but I wouldn't say a cone shape is necessarily any better in general than a burst shape.  Confusion isn't better in this respect, but you are saying it's worse - and that seems like incorrect information to me.

Secondly, and more importantly, a 30' cone puts you right into the action.  If you want to take advantage all 24 squares - you need to be right there, and definitely not behind the BSF - where you want to be. (unless you are an arcane archer - but Arcane Archer changes spell ratings).  With confusion you can put the burst origin anywhere in line of effect within medium range - this is a significant advantage.

you cannot convince me that a 30' cone that originates from the caster is anywhere near as tactically advantageous as a 15' burst ranged spell.  You may as well try to convince me that touch spells are tactically superior to ranged spells, that task would only be slightly more difficult.