I do not intend to take the Enhanced SOA lightly, nor will I come back here after just one test at my tier and pronouce it great or garbage. The fact is that with the amount of people who have spoken up about it, I will honestly be looking at it for my final spec. I just want to start capturing data with it as soon as possible.
I use the AOE fear fairly regularly in PVP and it is definately useful, but I would drop that for a casting time reduction. I am not asking for a personal permanent RoA but we should at least get something to speed up our wards. Yes this is more of an issue for PVP than PVE but it is still an issue for the class as a whole. As far as total time if they shaved 1s off of our group ward it is better than nothing.
Yes PVP hurts, but I do both and see failings that affect both sides. On the raid end of things we do shine, but shouldn't we have all around use in the whole game? I am not asking to be better than every other priest, but I see, especially what AA does for healers as a whole and we seem to be on the short end of that stick.