Fire Strike first or Curtain first? x.x

I did some calculations on the damage I would be doing if I went Fire Strike first. This is lukless with an Ele Wand 2.

70 (Pillar): 3416-4655 to Fire-weak, 2278-3103 to neutral (MP3)
75 (Strike): 4375-6886 to Fire-weak (Blue Kents) -13% level penalty
80 (Strike): 6735-9079 to Fire-weak (Blue Kents) -8% level penalty
87 (Strike): 9473-12682 to Fire-weak (Blue Kents) -1% level penalty

So I'd be 5hkoing Kents at level 80 or so and consistently 4hkoing in mid-8x. I'd also pretty much be stuck at Kents until mid-9x. With some improvement of gear I may be able to 3hko pretty often in the last few levels there. Does that seem better than Curtain? It would definitely be faster for the first 10 levels but I dunno about later on. What about Strike for a strong mob skill early -> Curtain so you're set up for late 8x? With the extra INT Blaze Wizards have they may be able to mist higher level monsters earlier.

My equips are pretty low-end since I don't play a mage, but I don't think gear should make too big of a difference. It may take an Ele Wand 1 to make this build work.

12% (proportionally) isn't going to make or break a build. 1 extra Strike won't slow you down THAT much in training. Anyways, that's amazingly godly, when you think about it. 9-12k? I wasn't hitting that much on my Marauder using blast, and I didn't have that much range, or 100% active energy (obviously). I'm guessing 30-35%/hr if we lose the E-X-Plosion event. We can also use Elders as an alternative in late 8x. Awesome money and we should easily avoid being hit (slow may not even be needed there). Plus that's good experience as well. This build looks good enough for me.