The current system promotes cheating, heavily. Either you have a wand list, like 90% of the vets have, myself included. (self compiled or not, most everyone that plays CF has some kind of list in some form)

The system is catered heavily to people that share wand locations OOC, or the person with the most friends. If you try to do it all in game, and dont have the luxury of friends to ask, you can sort of get a crap deal. And asking people in game is cool, but really, its mostly ineffective. You might get a few wand spots to check from helpful people, but some characters like APs, necros, evil conjies, they aren't gonna find many allies to ask. A goodie sure, but what about that Scarab muter? Or the evil tribby AP that nobody likes? They're just sort of #### out of luck, unless they find their 3 sleeks in the 20,000 + room mud. It's just too much at times. My system doesn't eliminate the sleek hunt, it just ups their chances of finding one a bit.

Take yourself out of your vet shoes, and look at it from the eyes of a new player, someone on their first year of CF. I've seen basically all of the sleek spots, and a new player wont have a prayer in hell finding some of them. Putting each character to 2 slots gives them more of a chance, the power gamers will still find their wands regardless. Should mages be a class only for the elite? Because I seriously, seriously doubt that a newbie is going to have the edge points to attune, probably ever.

And yeah, if you got 2 crap spots, you would be sorta #### out of luck. You would still have the option of working towards attunement edges, but this idea wasn't catered to giving every mage ABS on a stick. My idea when I came up with it was to keep people from deleting what could be an otherwise great character, that ended up with an impossible to find/get wand set. It would give the more casual mage players a fighting chance. (and some are flat impossible. Sleeks on underwater mobs for shifters that don't have a form that go in water? How is that at all balanced? I know at least one person that got that dice roll.)

You can't make everybody happy, the imms know it, and we have seen it all over these forums lately. But I think this solution just makes the current system bearable. I appreciate any input from anyone, if you like the idea, then speak up! Maybe if enough people like it they would be willing to give it a try. It would still make the wand hunt something that happened, but crap, I doubt people would get stuck and delete cause they "just didnt get good spots, or spent 100 hours and just couldn't find their sleeks"