What's funny is that when they decided officially to go away from an auto-attack system, they decided to make stamina cost for most abilities twice as much as a regular attack (although to be fair, in closed beta the stamina cost for regular attacks were more, and the reason they aren't now is because people complained about how slow combat was).

Aside from the stamina cost (which obviously needs to be lowered), they should make them frontal-AoE. I mean, they designed this game so that half of the attacks/spells are all AoE, so why aren't the provokes and taunts AoE?