Wait, you let the mobs encircle you? Do you just eat their telegraphed aoes too?
Did they change the game so you can avoid hits just as well coming from behind you as in front of you?
Do we really need to dumb the game down even further to faceroll ftw?

I ask because honestly I've never felt War to be limited with the AoEs, or Drk for that matter. I spend my time tanking a group of mobs balled up in front of me as I side step their AoEs against me and the rest of the party AoEs the ball down. And this positioning makes the cone AoEs of War and Drk effective.