With the recent change to 520 - Mage armor being non-imbeddible because it's "a signature wizard spell" and the concern about "bot wizards" making imbeds for others to use I think it's time to talk about our signature defensive spell. For far too long our signature defensive spell 319 - Soul Ward has been used by everyone and their mother with impunity. Every pure worth their salt has a "bot cleric" to provide them with Soul Ward, and raise their characters for them but that's another discussion. I propose making 319 self-cast only, removing it from regularly available magic items and scrolls and removing the maneuver benefit for non-native casters. If you are tired of every wizard and their mother having a cleric bot imbuing 319 on s gem for them please voice your support loudly and often. It should only take 2 or 3 of us posting repeatedly and being rude to others to get this change made within 24 hours.

Rvain

How about making non-clerics pay spirit for it? Each attack successfully warded costs a spirit point. Clerics can manipulate spirit, but using your soul to ward attacks as a non-cleric ought to be perilous. Or just make it expire on success like Fasthr's or Blink do.

I haven't actually seen it activating much if at all on non-clerics since Estild changed the formula, but it is a bit easy for others to use something that is clearly cleric flavored.

Presumably the reason manoevers are singled out is that they are the only actions that it can provide protection against to a non-cleric? AS will miss tanked characters anyway and if a critter has enough CS to be an issue, it will have enough TD to ignore 319 on a non-cleric. (If a critter actually used UAC that could hit too)

Isn't 319 reliant on cleric CS for it to activate? Is it really useful on non-clerics?