Keep overpower cone shaped!

[Covfefe]

I do miss the old overpower a lot.
The coverage was a lot more fun, and it was one of the things I enjoyed bout Warrior.
I would have preferred mythril tempest being the reworked animation/coverage instead.

Gameplay aside, this new animation is really really bad.

Screen grab from the current overpower.

[Chopstix]

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unfortunately u r on a reaper

the reaper cone is by no means the same as what overpower was b4

the visuals indicate that the reaper cone is a half circle aoe (or a 180 degree cone for better comparison)

the warrior cone was (educated guess here) 90 depgrees or so? i know it would not be hitting that dummy on the side

[Kallis]

Hear hear. Look at this guy having the right of it and getting lambasted by all these ppl who "know how to tank."

If you're wondering WHY you're wrong, it's because what you're describing isn't tanking, but DPSing. This is the mindset of a DPS who picked up a tank job and didn't understand their role is now slightly more complicated than "do max damage with biggest attack all the time." So, I suggest you please read thru this forums and catch yourself up on the discussion so far, you will see the explanations for how the cone was good for TANKING , not for DPS.

[Donoman]

I can't believe people are actually upset by this change. No matter how you look at it, a circle AoE covers more area than a cone does. Especially when you consider that enemies can not 'stack' on top of each other in this game. This means no matter what, when you get a lot of enemies together, they are going to naturally pile up around you in a CIRCLE. By making this change, this means you have to MOVE LESS to continue your AoE combo. Meaning that the DPS on your team is not getting screwed over by you backing up constantly to hit enemies with your cone.

I thought the same at first but no, the cone had way more range and it was far more useful and pulling mobs that were further away. I thought I hated the cone, but my god I absolutely hate how tiny the range on the circle is. I would do anything to get the cone back x.x

[marelooke]

To quote from earlier in the thread:

The cone was roughly 150 degrees. It had an 8-yalm radius. (150/360)8²π = 83.8 sq yalms.

Overpower had the range where it mattered.

[AffGnome]

lose cone, keep flood of darkness line

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

lose cone, keep flood of darkness line

You can have my Flood of Shadow and Shadowbringer line AOEs when you pried it from my cold dead hands.

[marelooke]

You can have my Flood of Shadow and Shadowbringer line AOEs when you pried it from my cold dead hands.

Probably only a matter of time. It seems the devs realize these non-boring-circle AoEs are at least as effective, and far more engaging, than the circles. If they weren't Dragoon would have been changed.

But Dragoon is mained by a dev, while all the classes hit heavily with unpopular changes (to the people maining them, anyway) aren't mained by any devs. Correlation is not causation, maybe, but it does make one think...

[Shurrikhan]

Probably only a matter of time. It seems the devs realize these non-boring-circle AoEs are at least as effective, and far more engaging, than the circles. If they weren't Dragoon would have been changed.

But Dragoon is mained by a dev, while all the classes hit heavily with unpopular changes (to the people maining them, anyway) aren't mained by any devs. Correlation is not causation, maybe, but it does make one think...

Which of the... (three? four?) devs mains DRG? Hadn't heard that.

That said, though, good for them. Now, if only jobs could get some respect even when not mained personally by a dev...