I assume this change includes cabal guardians?

If so I'm somewhat torn on this, in some ways it is meh, I'm glad as a paladin/healer I wont have to sit at the watcher or maran spamming heal/sleeping when out of range raids take place. On the other it is clearly a further mechanical advantage to Empire over Fortress, as empire has only the healer class whom this impacts, versus I think one of the most common fortress classes of paladin. Further their multiple guardians will be regenerating health at 4x the speed of the watcher, or by departing the palace clear all effects of damage?

The timing of this change is in my opinion, questionable given the severely skewed political landscape as it stands now, with (a certain place) only truly being available to one side of the coin, and it being ravaged frequently.

Is any consideration being given to the healing classes to compensate for this change? I didnt get the impression the recent cabal power change was done in recompense for this, but to somewhat address the perceived severe discrepancy in the cabal power mechanics. If I'm accurate that this effects cabal guardians, it is certainly a more severe nerf than buff was given.


Second question:
Is lay on hands / altruism also being effected by this? The code change specified supplications so I assume not.