Quote Originally Posted by XRuecian View Post
Your right, i do want them in front of me. And its an annoyance and a half because of it. I cant count how many times i have to reposition so that my "Line AOE" will hit all the enemies i want it to. Which is not a big deal if we are only talking about 3-4 enemies. But once you get to like 5-6+ enemies, once i reposition, some of those enemies are going to reposition as well. Which means ill have to reposition again, and so on. Enemies "Push" each other. So if you have a big enough group, its literally impossible for them all to stay "in front of you" because some of them will be pushed away, and then they will push into the group, which will FORCE the group to begin encircling you.
Hear hear. Look at this guy having the right of it and getting lambasted by all these ppl who "know how to tank."

Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
The cone was roughly 150 degrees. It had an 8-yalm radius. (150/360)8²π = 83.8 sq yalms.
The circle has a radius of only 5 yalms, costing you 60% of your range. (360/360)5²π = 78.5 sq yalms, only 39.25 of which face forward.

Even if you were to stand perfectly in the middle of the enemies as to get value out of the otherwise wasted 39 sq yalms behind you, purposely not doing your job in gathering them as tightly as you could, the circle is still a smaller area.

In short, the cone has a 7% greater area, and 213% greater forward-facing area. Your statement is patently untrue.
No, u r woefully incorrect in practice. Good bit of the cone goes to waste, particularly the edges at the back, BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING THERE (there goes ur 7% totally wasted, omegalul). Also the cone was rather narrow and there is a good chance of u missing stuff that is directly to ur side (which is going to happen). If u stand in the middle u have a reach of 5 yalms in EVERY direction (that is 10 yalms across). With a cone u only have a reach of 8 in the general forward direction.

FURTHERMORE u r being completely ignorant about the efficiency of the circle. The area to circumference ratio is much better, meaning a smaller telegraph is going to be more efficient with a circle shape, than a larger with a different kind of shape.

I still cant believe this nonsense thread is going on. I guess ppl need some form of entertainment because dungeons r boring?