>My Master Plan:
>1. Destroy all current ABS wands.
>2. Make new limited ABS wands with unlimited charges.

So I can have ABS up 100% of the time?

>3. Make the limits on these ABS wands correspond to their
>power (i.e., 4 nocharge barrier wands; 15 nocharge shield
>wands, etc.).

So you guarantee that only 4 people ever have barrier (and likely the most powerful people in the game). Feels like the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer to me.

>4. Put these wands in static locations on appropriate mobs.
>(i.e., one barrier wand is held by the Dracolich, one is held
>by the master of the HTOS, etc.)
>
>Let the players compete over who gets to hold these limited
>ABS wands.
>
>Why I like this:
>1. No more Easter Egg hunts - everyone knows where these wands
>are... but chances are it's in a Character's hands and not on
>the mob.

Can you locate them? Do you really know where these wands are?

>2. Competition. If you want the wand, you have to hope it's on
>the mob, or you have to PK for it (or, if you're the Emperor,
>order your underling to hand it over).

Feels like the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer to me.

>3. Equal footing with other classes. I think we all reached an
>agreement, below, that AB*and*S is only required for a very
>rare few characters .. all the rest only require some
>combination of protections and AB*or*S. Those few characters
>that AB*and*S are required for generally competed for the
>amazing gear that makes them so dangerous. So now mages have
>to compete to have that same level of PK power.
>
>I think this resolves everyone's problems with the current
>system.

I think this makes more problems, than it solves to be honest.