Hussar
Legend
From what I've read, it sounds like that is the way they are going. I'm still unhappy with the change to the hold and sleep, and darkness (or should i call them shadow now) spells. I thought Andy Collin's changes were pathetic and his reason was even more pathetic. Collin's changes to those spells made them a rarity (basically never) in my campaign, especially the darkness and sleep spells. The hold spells dropped in use as well.
You don't think that's because the spells were massively overpowered before so that choosing to cast anything else in combat was pretty much sub-par? Why bother with any other spell when you can sleep anything under 4 hit dice and they die?