Yes you read that right, disciple! SHINING FORCE, the single greatest and funnest ability the priest has ever known has been quietly removed from the game! In favor of what, I ask you? Another cool, fun (and potentially murderous) move? I took my ability book apart and found no passage on the matter. Or maybe you want more gullible and self-unaware people stumbling their way around Elwynn? Or maybe this is the price we have to pay to finally get LONG BEARDS?
In any case, this ability has granted this young old priest endless hours of enjoyment. So much in fact, that I will dedicate a passage to Shining Force and this absolute blunder:
"Do not go gentle into that good night.
Old age should burn and rave at close of day.
Rage, RAGE against the dying of the light!"