Keep overpower cone shaped!

[marelooke]

wow people will really complain about everything on these forums huh
Overpower as a circle is perfectly fine, even better than a cone.

There were already 3 tanks with circles for those that can't stand the cone, besides the advantages a cone provided as have been pointed out in these two threads numerous times by now.

People have good reasons to complain about this tho. For one it's actually a big change for us who have been used to the cone and circle Overpower feels like a nerf (it's currently 5y around compared to 8y in front of you). Secondly, no one really asked for this change (from what I've seen at least) and there was little to no transparency at all, just ended up changing it without feedback. ngl, I ended up missing a lot more mobs with this new change, which is rare for me, and this is coming from someone who used all the tanks up to at least lvl 80 so I am familiar with the circle AoE. Thirdly, it doesn't make sense visually because how I see it is you slam an axe normally to the ground and get whatever in in the line of the axe, not it surrounding you, at least that's my thinking. Fourthly, I'm currently leveling BRD and been using RDM for dungeons and they got to keep their cone AoEs but somehow WAR cannot keep their cone. Finally, I've heard of the long time concern of homogenizing the roles and how jobs will be similar to each other with different flavour for simplicity, which can be a problem in the long run.

As a former RDM I hadn't even realized the ridiculousness that they actually gave RDM a directional AoE with this expansion. It's not even that they got to keep it, they added it.

Really makes the change feel even worse, and even more arbitrary, too.

Were there too many tanks for dungeons maybe? Sucking the fun out of dungeon tanking was a good way for them to address the overabundance of tanks?
(/s and rhetorical question, it's been "tank in need" for most every roulette in my DC the past months, including, surprisingly, Alliance)