The first one is that you continue to assume there are mages to fight. Most of the time, there isn't one logged on in the first place. You also seem to be forgetting the size of the world and that they just don't go visible often or at all. They can level without it. You're just mistaken about that.

But the second is really the real issue which is your logic is wrong on how it should be. Your logic here is that it should be someone who can't see invisible should have to wait until someone comes to fight him. That's just the wrong way of thinking, it should be about whether the applicant can do something. Your way, you've said several times, is dependent on a mage deciding to go fight the applicant. It should be about the applicant going and finding.

As it is, things beyond the applicant's control, and things they by definition cannot effect or overcome, are determinitive. That's ass backwards. Your logic means you could have an applicant never, ever, even find one. Mages could just decide never to go to him. That's not the right outcome.

And again, how does it hurt anyone for a battle applicant to get trusight at 25 like they already do, if they have a kill? They still don't have other powers.

I get the sense you just don't like battle cabal. Maybe. And that's fine. But the change in the game over the last 25 years means the system is broken. Taken 50, 60, 75 hours to get lucky and try and find the one mage who logged on in three days and happened to go visible for 5 seconds is the opposite of a way to keep players.