From Aether data center here too, and yea, we always tank BD in middle. It's so much easier on melee and healers.

Don't really understand issue with cone though, as long as tank holds onto aggro, everyone can avoid aoe cone by staying on entrance half of room, do other data center have worse cases of voke trolls?

As for killing skeletons, pretty much every alliance gets their own slice of the pie, focuses down skeletons in their section, then helps other alliances with theirs. On good runs, most skeletons wont even make it past second raised section of each spoke.

Also, with everyone staying on entrance half of room for practically whole fight, everyone is close together and makes healing a lot easier.