We were sure Aion had overlooked this; everyone waited with bated breath for its next move.But there was nothing but silence the first day. Nervous with anticipation, I went to talkto Kinaesthesia, my priesty cohort for all things healing. I asked him what he thought of the changes. He admitted he hadn't tried it out himself yet, so I gave him a rundown of it all. He asked me what I thought could be done to fix everything.""Move Soul Warding, first of all. Perhaps switch itwith Atonement so holy can get a bit more incentive to use Chakra: Chastise in PvE. Then another shield or something to fix the raid healing problem. My mobility is terrible, and if shaman or druids get a raid cooldown like Power Word: Barrier, disc is going to http://www.sellkina.com/look a lot less appealing when every other healer can single-target and AoE heal well, but disc can only single-target well.""""How would this new spell work?"" he asked.""Probably just a second shield, a mini-Power Word: Shield you could spam for 8,000 to 10,000.""We spent the rest of the night designing spells, everythingfrom a Penance with an Inner Focus-inspired modifier, which split the spell into a raid heal, to a Wild Growth clone with individual shields that use the absorption mechanic Power Word: Barrier had during beta. After that, we explored ways to fix the lessened appeal of Smite healing by working Holy Fire into Atonement healing. Then we dropped the designs into a pneumatic capsule and sent it through our direct pipeline to Ghostcrawler's office. It was around that time we remembered it wasn't 1995 and that we were daydreaming.A hotfix revertedFinally, after two long days, another hotfix was announced. This change addressed the insanity of the previous two days. Body and Soul nolonger reduces the mana cost of Power Word: Shield (the hotfix made on Feb. 16 to provide this additional benefit has been reverted). Rapture nowreturns 2/5/7% of maximum mana when Power Word: Shield is consumed, up from 2/4/6%. No blue posts accompanied the changes this time. It looked like holy priests would have to cope with the increased cost of shields when they wanted to use Body and Soul from now on. I could only assume they would be moving their talent points elsewhere again.The tiny buff to Rapture seemed like it might answer my new issues with mana as well, but I would need another week to test it in action. And what about the shield spamming in my friends' guilds? I guess there was no doing away with it entirely, not with the sanction of a whole raid team. I decided to consult with two other trusted priest friends to get their thoughts on the nerfs. I heard back from Derevka at Tales of a Priest first. ""I think we all saw this coming -- and if you didn't shame on you! I don't think anyone wanted an entire expansion of heroic Lich King over and over.