My problem with A/S/B isn't that it's available, or really even the top end production. It's that these spells make an average or even sub-par character instantly much (much) better. These spells were the direct result of Cabdru (Nepenthe) getting the uber amount of charges he was able to acrue in such a short amount of time, with the only effort of knowing where to find these wands. If there were more limitations on how A/S/B worked, you wouldn't see anymore ridiculously powerful characters like Cabdru (216 kills in 176 hours).

Let's face it, there are plenty of wand-sharing lists out there already. And since the cat-is-out-of-the-bag about how sleek wands work, it really doesn't matter if you share every location or not. Because you'll always have your location, no-matter-what. So I don't buy the "takes forever to find wands" argument anymore. Anyone that's been playing longer than six months could easily find wands if they make that their focus. I use myself as an example (despite playing much longer than six months), I made a character recently with the sole intent of finding wands (with next to no previous knowledge of any wands) and I managed to find all three sleek wands, several other potential locations, and about a dozen other non-sleek locations. I was able to accomplish this in the span of about a 200 hour exploration character. And even with that amount of success, I'm sure there are a couple dozen more that I have absolutely no clue about.

I stand by the opinion of A/S/B makes characters instantly strong, without a whole lot of effort. Getting wands isn't the darkhorse that you make it out to be.

As for spam, what about invokers? They have to sit there and spam 90% of their spells for mastery. Necromancers spam plenty of their spells. And any mage worth a damn will too. So again, I don't buy your senseless spamming argument. Because all the good players will spend the time to spam the spells their guild teaches. Why should it be any different for A/S/B? You find some rare artifact and you're automatically a master at it? Because that's how it is now.