Whether there was an OOC wand list or not, if there was never one circulating and you had to find everything IC it was still fine through RP and whatnot, but having new spots in area explore places is just insane to me and makes it suck whether you have a list or not.

Even if every single mage in the game knew the old 30+ spots or whatever.. that still required them having to check every single place and THEN having to deal with getting them. That right there was enough to make it fine, why should players have to work harder to get their abs then that? I could understand if ABS was an "I win" situation and in some cases it is... but even with full abs ragers can easily beat you depending on class and most of the time when you need it most is in raid situations even if it's non ragers it's a necessity.

I'm not trying to be a drama queen like nep said, or even spark some thing to make IMM's pissed at me. I'm just pointing out that most of the playerbase agrees and that it IS an issue, even though I realize it's not like CF is a democracy. I will just not play mages anymore, and be fine with it, and lots of other people are doing the same. Which is why the IMM's made the Village stop accepting members at the moment, that just shouldnt happen on a game of balance that you guys are so amazingly good at.