I distinctly remember another newbie mage, shifter in his 30s, who was asking about sleeks a few months back and I told him he'd have to find them throughout the world and were unique to each person. The guy replied pretty much saying "are you ####ing serious? I die left and right and now you're telling me I have to find a unique wand to have a chance against everyone else? #### this!" and he deleted right there.

Something that I also don't think being discussed, is if you even find your spot, if it's possible without aid. I really don't think some of these spots are entirely fair (I can think of a few sadistic ones) when other people have barrier wands they can just go pick up with little to no threat.

It's bad enough in my opinion people play the gamble with shifters, but now people play the gamble with wands as well. I've seen a few mages delete after finding their first sleek at 30 because "my locations suck". How would you feel explaining to someone completely new to the game that their sleek is on something they can't get themselves, but there opponent has four of them.

I'm also with Gromkonk about balance with wands versus without wands.