The sleek system has always been relatively terrible.

However, it never kept me from rolling a mage (I love shapeshifters). There are plenty of limited wands/scrolls/talismans in the world, and mages aren't SUPPOSED to have ABS on tap all the time. If they were, then those would be class abilities instead of preps.

You can still have terrible luck with your sleeks in the new system. Get an impossible black and have no allies? Well, you're basically still ####ed.

It is what it is.