Warrior Decimate is too weak

[Ghastly]

Even with berserk and maim Decimate is just too weak
Anyone else agree or am I missing something?

[HoodRat]

Even with berserk and maim Decimate is just too weak
Anyone else agree or am I missing something?

With my crappy gear I can crit 3k on everything I hit with decimate. Doesn't seem too bad to me for a tank.

[Ghastly]

Numbers don't mean much in terms of comparing to each other (we'll all have different attribute points).
What I'd like to compare are the different skills, how are we ever going to choose decimate over fell cleave? it's illogical...

[Ralvenom]

Numbers don't mean much in terms of comparing to each other (we'll all have different attribute points).
What I'd like to compare are the different skills, how are we ever going to choose decimate over fell cleave? it's illogical...

Um...that's simple. Look at the tooltip:

Delivers an attack to all nearby enemies with a potency of 280.

Compare that to our other AoE dmg/threat grabs:
Steel Cyclone:

Delivers an attack with a potency of 200 to all nearby enemies.
Ignores the 35% damage penalty inflicted by Defiance.

Overpower:

Delivers an attack with a potency of 120 to all enemies in a cone before you.

In other words, Decimate does more dmg. So, why not use it? Yes, the magic numbers of Decimate aren't as great. But that's because it's an AoE attack. AoEs always does less dmg to each mob they hit than single targets attacks do, but AoEs do either equal or more dmg overall.

[Launched]

Savage A2 was made just for WAR to use Decimate. It's amazing.

[Phoebus]

You do realize decimate is aoe and fell cleave is single target right?

[FallenWings]

280 Raw Potency per target is absurd.
To put into perspective; if you hit two targets with Decimate thats 280*2 right? Thats a total of 560, which is already better than Fell Cleave.
3 Targets? 280*3 which is... You guessed it! 840! 4? 5? 6? The potential is only limited by its range.

This logic applies to all AoE skills.

[Risvertasashi]

280 Raw Potency per target is absurd.
To put into perspective; if you hit two targets with Decimate thats 280*2 right? Thats a total of 560, which is already better than Fell Cleave.
3 Targets? 280*3 which is... You guessed it! 840! 4? 5? 6? The potential is only limited by its range.

This logic applies to all AoE skills.

For reference, not even Holy nor Flare are this powerful.

[Gooner_iBluAirJGR]

Any time there's more than 1 target Decimate is stronger. If you don't believe me, believe in math.

2 Targets
Decimate Potency: 280 + 280 = 560
Fell Cleave Potency: 500

#Numbers

[Phoebus]

I'm just assuming this is either

A. Troll

B. They thought decimate was only single target.