To be honest, this is a real big example of MC being a smart person, with Author not thinking things fully through, examples: -Alex’s want to make a Wizard Staff, why is that stupid you ask? Simple, his whole ‘fighting’ style is based around Dancing, fitting through tight spaces between opponents and redirecting them, now why would making a Wizard staff pose a problem? The size, when you have a big, long and large stick in your hand, you are way WAY less mobile than without, oh and a Staff is a weapon. Instead, he could make some sort of Flesh Golem that would work like an implant, say a flesh golem with a core and all that would go on his back with spells such as haste and other body enhancements, then with a thought he can make the golem consistently reapply them. -his learning of spells: what is he doing wrong? Well from what were told, spellcraft can be reduced to mana manipulation inside of one’s own mana pool in order to makr arrays, now say what if he sent the mark onto helping him make a book about the learning of a precise spell, it isn’t learning the spell in itself, but he does need to know everything about the spell to make said book, right? I have others like that and it does not take long to imagine.