It won't really solve anything and eventually create more problem in the long run. The system will still suck and the game will suffer as a result. Newbies will get the shaft and ooc knowledge sharing will continue. Frankly even if i knew every possibly location, just the fact i have to go everywhere searching for each one would tick me off. It makes the entire thing pointless and irritating.

I myself have not started a new mage since the change and probably will not either. The tedium isn't worth the amount of fun i get. I can't help but think that if mages become as popular as healers currently are then the point might get across but either way it currently is what it is...

To Isildur: The new system prevents mages from having an entire set of wands but for all the wrong reasons. Being a fan of both assassins and transmuters, lets just say that I'd trade my super easy to get barrier source for martial trance skill on my transmuter any day.