The tanker cone change feels terrible, please revert!

[nyttyn]

Most of the harder-to-use Cone attacks felt actually usable and good on tankers, and now they're back to being utterly miserable. Could you please revert this? Or better yet, make the <90 degree cones bigger for every melee AT. 

[Uun]

Page 2 has been on the beta server for 3 weeks. The focused feedback thread on the tanker changes is 20 pages long. Based on player feedback, there were significant modifications to the first iteration and the final version reverted many of the initial nerfs. The cones now have the same dimensions as those attacks do on other ATs.

[FupDup]

2 minutes ago, Uun said:

The cones now have the same dimensions as those attacks do on other ATs.

Yes, that is the problem. Those dimensions suck in a lot of cases, across all ATs. 

[Uun]

3 minutes ago, FupDup said:

Yes, that is the problem. Those dimensions suck in a lot of cases, across all ATs. 

I don't disagree, however the initial version of the patch moving the radius/range buffs from Gauntlet to the cone powers resulted in 20%+ reductions to the base damage of those powers (before the nerf to over-cap damage). 

[Fireburn]

Melee cones have always been a pathetic mockery of "area" attacks. The tanker increased arc was the only thing that made them usable and the only AT that could not treat them as weaker single target powers in disguise.  But as soon as people saw a reduction in damage they scremed OUTRAGE! and so we ended up like this, and for a few tens of hp of damage we are back to stupid attacks.

[WindDemon21]

7 hours ago, nyttyn said:

Most of the harder-to-use Cone attacks felt actually usable and good on tankers, and now they're back to being utterly miserable. Could you please revert this? Or better yet, make the <90 degree cones bigger for every melee AT. 

This is two fold. One, I like the longer range on the cones that always should have had that, so i DO like the new way better. On the other hand though, the angle of most melee cones already should be wider than a lot of them are though, and honestly all melee skills should really be 10ft range especially cones for this reason at a base.