Do you have a tincan?
As of right now, there are 3 tincans as Warlords,
about 6 months ago there were none. There still are not any Warriors. The rest are Haras, Seyans and Sorcs.(And now the super fast ranking Necros)
At about mid-Field Marshall they are about as strong as they will ever get. Which, when unassisted by another's spells, they are sitting ducks against equally rank Haras Sorcs and Necros. Yes we take a longer time to kill, but our self-spelled-Weapon value is miniscule when compared to other races of the same rank.
How many ATs are able to do a solo prison run? A tower run takes close to an hour. Getting from Mixed to UW takes over an hour sometimes. Me, as a Warlord, Still takes for ever to pent Brigs.
Even maxed resist and immunity they are suseptable to a perma stun by a couple of much lower ranked players coordinating their attack.
Are you saying that other than the Thieves dungeon, Temps shouldn't be able to use lockpick at all? On a gpot, ish scrolls, and the right armour the best I ever got was 112 modded LP, typically I would be lucky to get 105. Investing, and being a bit lucky gives us a small chanc at getting through a 120 LP door with out requiring the perfect set of armour.
As far as being able to identify a magical item...why not? What harm is there? (I am truly inquiring about this aspect)
You talk about how we have to fight to find a key. You forgot about fight very slowly. Even with a Max warcry, the stun effect is minimal and very costly. We can't compulse, we can't curse with effectiveness, we can't stun with effectiveness, we have no stealth, we can't see in the dark.
I speak only from experience of this server over the last several years, I can not speak to how things were in the past or on other servers.