Quote Originally Posted by Terhix View Post
Point of origins are obviously different. I've overlayed them since that makes the surface area easier to compare. And yes, circle is 10 yalms long (5 yalms radius), which is more than 8 yalms range on cone, where as cone is 16 yalms wide at max range (8 yalms radius).
I have no idea why you keep focusing on the total surface area when we've already established it doesn't practically matter because you shouldn't have mobs bunched all around you anyway as it makes life harder for quite a few other classes when mobs aren't properly positioned (DRG, notably).

Sure, once the pull is done the "extra" range of Overpower doesn't usually get you much (unless someone pulled a mob off of you during the pull and decides to stand just outside of your circle range, which ironically ime is quite a common place for healers/ranged to go stand, so...), but neither should the additional surface area the circle gets you.

In fact, the more I think about it the more I start feeling we should just change all the tank AoE rotation starters into cones. But given the direction things have been headed I think it's more likely all AoE is just turned into circles because heavens forbid any semblance of thought should be put towards positioning. Next on the chopping block of streamlineliness: Flood of Darkness and DRG AoE.