I wouldn't ask all the questions if the searches worked the way they used to. For example..taking your suggestion and going to advanced search, keep it on search all forums type in a/b/s or sleek and you get either nothing, or only stuff that was posted since the forum switched.

Thanks for the answer, and sorry if my questions are gettings annoying. I really was finding most of the stuff for myself starting out, but once the search function stopped working for things in the archives the information flat-lined. This will be my last question.

The main thing I was trying to find out is since so many people say roll up an exploration character and go find them yourself is if that rolled up character needs to be a wand user as well.