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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 5183713" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>I think you might be missing the point. The article is written from the perspective of looking at which of your existing options to use when you are fighting a given fight. Its a tactics article, not a character building guide article.</p><p></p><p>GIVEN that a character with an area attack power has an option he should clearly try to include the current target being focused on in the area of his attack, all other things being equal. In some cases it may be advisable for such a character to pick a higher damage single target attack and finish off a specific enemy vs leaving it standing for a round simply because he can do more total damage instead.</p><p></p><p>Remember too that the VAST majority of area attack powers are going to be encounter or daily powers. Often it makes sense to make a single target attack in lieu of an area attack when the area attack has no IMMEDIATE benefit, you can always execute that attack on another round. Its rarely a choice where you can decide to spam an area attack, and even if you can its likely to be a much less effective power.</p><p></p><p>I agree that it can be a better idea to do a whole bunch of spread out damage vs a much lower amount of single target damage to a key target, but that doesn't in any way invalidate the idea of concentrating fire. Nor does the fact that the author didn't go into area attack powers in depth mean anything in particular. He never even suggested that single target powers were better, or even as good as area attacks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 5183713, member: 82106"] I think you might be missing the point. The article is written from the perspective of looking at which of your existing options to use when you are fighting a given fight. Its a tactics article, not a character building guide article. GIVEN that a character with an area attack power has an option he should clearly try to include the current target being focused on in the area of his attack, all other things being equal. In some cases it may be advisable for such a character to pick a higher damage single target attack and finish off a specific enemy vs leaving it standing for a round simply because he can do more total damage instead. Remember too that the VAST majority of area attack powers are going to be encounter or daily powers. Often it makes sense to make a single target attack in lieu of an area attack when the area attack has no IMMEDIATE benefit, you can always execute that attack on another round. Its rarely a choice where you can decide to spam an area attack, and even if you can its likely to be a much less effective power. I agree that it can be a better idea to do a whole bunch of spread out damage vs a much lower amount of single target damage to a key target, but that doesn't in any way invalidate the idea of concentrating fire. Nor does the fact that the author didn't go into area attack powers in depth mean anything in particular. He never even suggested that single target powers were better, or even as good as area attacks. [/QUOTE]
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