I am thinking of the same location you made reference to in the original posting of the wand change. It was in regards to a sleek source in a protected city and how it would not make sense for tribunals to have it. While you are correct in that it is fair game for an outlander mage, it would still have to fall under my definition of a crappy location in comparison to other possibilities.

Coincidently, that source used to belong to a set which would have probably made me 'deleted delete' my character if i ever got again. It is the reason i would never bother to search for barrier. It was one of the sets i wish would be removed and i suppose i am still wishing.

Wasn't one of the benifits you mention of new the system the fact that you could balance it out a bit to avoid mages getting location which were exceedingly more difficult for them in comparison to getting other locations? I suppose in my example it is still a matter of opinion as opposed to something more black and white like the tribunal example.

Still...~le sigh~