I'm sure everyone's familiar with the vigor spells. For a while now I've house ruled them to the transmutation school. The reason being they grant a special quality similar to darkvision. After Augment Healing Healing and an item from the magic item compendium that lets the user heal up as much as he healed someone else showed up I was glad I ruled as I did.
The feat is worded something like "whenever you cast a Conjuration (healing) spell it heals additional points" and the item is similar except "..you are also healed...". The spells are worded so that you aren't actually healing the target. You give the target the fast healing ability.
I was happy with my decision, but how are other DM's working this? Do this vigor spells end up running longer with augment healing? What about combined with extend spell? That seems like a lot of curing based on the spell level? And for the magic item, does it give the fast healing ability to the caster? Does my ruling seem fair, or am I overestimating the usefulness (I have seen characters die because they got a vigor instead of a cure)?