I never have access to those edges. Not sure what I'm doing wrong.

Those edges also don't actually address the real problem with ABS. The real problem with ABS is that until you have a list of all the locations its ridiculous. There's really not much rhyme or reason to the locations. And if you're a newbie who doesn't want to "cheat" and actually wants to find all of them, well good luck to you, you have to kill basically every mob you can think of with every mage you play until you build your list.

Sarien's suggestion is much better. Even if you try to "farm them" you're rate limited to one wand per quest. So spending 120 minutes waiting on a new quest, multiple times, trying to get an easy one, is dramatically time consuming. You also have guidance on where to go, which is good for a newbie and resolves the whole, "I don't want to cheat but I don't have a 40 location list yet" issue.