Don't worry, the blues posted before TBC released that fear wouldn't be a major part of the game in TBC. Thats why they gave a 2nd fear ward to alliance and didn't give one to Horde.

I've been a raid leader since early release and have dealt with fear on the horde side the only way we can... undead tanks, mithril insignia, pvp trinkets, etc... It's not been easy, but we always manage to figure it out and deal with it.

Blizzard is nerfing the existing fear ward and giving it to the Horde... so what, if it's not a talent and all priests get it, then it's a one or two time freebie fear break for my average raid on fights that fears an issue... The Alliance will cry that they got nerfed, we don't really get anything game breaking from it, and the world will continue.

All said and done, the worlds top progression guilds were all alliance pre TBC, now it's a MUCH better balance since Horde has paladins... once fear ward is removed from alliance and rebalanced for all to use, we'll see where the real raiders are and where those who were getting past fear based encounters the easy way are.

That said - for boxing it comes down to there is no viable way to keep your group unfearable, you just have to learn to move on your feet... that means creative movement to gather and face, and it means your tank may have to do some shuffle steps to keep in range of your healers at times... but thats the price ya pay.