...if you're good and you find easy spots, you steam roll. If you're good and you find hard spots, it fucking sucks. How many times do people reroll now because their wands are nearly impossible to get solo? When you're an undead, it's easy as hell to get wands - just get an army. Try those same spots with an AP sometime (especially without charges) and get back to me on how balanced the system is.
I don't want randomness - if I wanted that, I'd play a shifter. Mek and I probably spent close to one hundred hours finding our last a/b/s sets and they fucking blew - delete;delete on solid characters who we liked because of it. It's a faulty system - admit it and stop taking pot shots at normal players because a lich/muter, the two most unbalanced classes in the game, are better with a/b/s. Do you enjoy prepping for several hours each day? If you say "but there are spots you can just walk in and pickup your barrier", then remove them but also remove the retarded ass spots that are impossible solo unless you're the above mentioned exceptions. Make the system fair and not random.
They took a unbalanced system, made it worse by adding in a/b/s, then made it worse by changing the spots and things like the HLK revamp, then made it even worse by adding ten times the spot locations. Next you'll have to find your wands on teleporting mobs who can't be detected.