I see what you mean, and didn't intend to come off as sitting on my hands...I just stuck with a foolish notion that with enough patience, exploration, and talking with others I would be able to find them. But a few days of it turned into a few weeks, and then into a good month or more of not letting myself try to rank and beating my head into the landscape of thera trying to test more locations.

I had a pretty good start to this character, and was pretty sure that if I did rank up a lot without barrier that I would get tooled at every turn like I did with Greae by the likes of Djabree, Waris, Satebos, and Kharnial, and that happened even with having barrier when I needed it then. Trying to avoid getting myself into one extreme took me to another I guess.