Dragon's tail damage

[EniEni]

The power info says that dragon's tail does more damage than thunder kick, but Mids says it does 52.46, vs 86.42 on thunder kick, and even 78.44 on spinning kick. Does it really only deal 2/3rds the damage spinning kick does?

[Ston]

Correct. The bigger the radius of an AoE attack, the less damage it will do. But on the flip side, you will be able to hit more targets.

If you compare a single target attack to an AoE attack with similar recharge rates, the single target attack will always do more damage according to the damage formula.

[EniEni]

Thanks for clearing it up! I was comparing it to spinning kick and cross cut but I guess those are cones not PBAoE. The power description is still kinda weird though.

[Uun]

The dominator version of Dragon's Tail has a 15-foot radius and can hit 10 targets. Spinning Kick has a 90 degree arc and 9-foot radius and can only hit 5 targets. 

[Haijinx]

Some flavor text might remain from the Scrapper version. Which actually does do more than Thunder Kick per target.