This isn't the only thing -- all spells should go through walls in outdoor zones including monster AOEs and PC spells. So you can hit that stupid mummy through the sand dunes in NRo etc.
In other words, there was never any hiding from aoe's in the outdoors -- a bigger issue when it comes to outdoor dragons including sontalak, klandicar, and wuoshi in the future, and in an even worse case of utter gimpification, hiding from Ail the Elder's silence ae and so on. You can go down the list really, but it's a really important issue.
Bottom line - rule of the thumb is -- if you can SoW, you can't hide!
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