Suggestion: Savage Blade Cleave

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So, would it be broken or balanced if Savage Blade had a combo bonus that made it strikes everything in front of you? The animation is such a wide horizontal swing that it kinda doesn't make sense how I'm hitting only the enemy in between two other ones. Obviously this cleave would only effect melee range, and wouldn't be like warrior's overpower.

I for one would enjoy some aoe that would help for solo purposes and help noobies have an easier time tanking at lower levels. It kinda blows that Circle of Scorn has a pretty lengthy cooldown for being our only aoe ability, not including Flash which does no damage. I feel like the world wouldn't crumble if Paladin had some extra dps to make it feel like I'm contributing a bit more then just holding enemies' attention.

Even with a savage blade that hit multiple targets, I find it hard to believe we can beat or even come close to a Black Mage on aoe dps. Your thoughts?

EDIT: Just some edits to reflect on some concerns you guys have mentioned.

So new Savage Blade could be something with a combo potency of 170 on the target and a potency of 50 on 2 additional targets for a combined total of 270 potency.

Rage of Halone and Royal Authority can be increased by 30 to make up for Savage Blade losing 30 potency on the main target. So all in all, the dps is the same with one target, you just have some added cleave to match with the animation and have some increased aoe dps.

I don't think it would be beneficial to cut out the 3rd ability to aoe quicker as you'd be losing out on DPS as Rage of Halone and Royal Authority would have more potency then Savage Blade regardless.

I do think it would be nice if all horizontal cleave looking animations hit multiple targets, but for the simplicity of the thread I just wanna keep it to Paladins and AoE dps.