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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mirtek" data-source="post: 5176259" data-attributes="member: 40810">It's not this one, it's all the other instances using similar languages which are now wracked by this specific ruling.RAI is clear, we heard it from the designers themselves, they didn't meant for HL to apply to CLW. However it seems as if the designers tripped over a snarl in their own rules language.The way to make HL no longer apply to CLW would be the update CLW to just say "The target regains hit points equal to it's healing surge value" instead of "The target regains hit points as if it had spent a healing surge."Because the "as if" wording has a special meaning in 4e rules language and their current answer about HL and CLW is generally changing this meaning across a lot of different powers. While it changes the meaning of CLW to match RAW, the changes it brings to a host of other powers is certainly not intended.E.g. the Wizard of the Spiral Tower has already been mentioned as an example. Until the designers answer to HL and CLW, a Wand of Accuracy wizard could use his wand of accuracy feature while using a longsword. With the answer regarding to HL and CLW he can no longer do so, even if the answers certainly was never intended to affect any other instances of the "as if" rules language being used, that's what it does nonetheless. In this case it's the designers not thinking enough into what the intend and what the actually write down and how what they say about case A does affect cases B, C, and D</blockquote>

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