How packed can you get mobs? I thought cleave would be the better power but for the size of the cone. Me personally wouldn't look at Energy Torrent.
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Energy Torrent is good knockdown but nottalotta damage, if you know what I mean.
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Depends on how many mobs are hit. If you're getting close to the cap of 10, ET is very, very effective. KD's nice too, tho Axe has enough of those. My only concern is being out of AAO range to maximize ET's cone.
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Tweaking my SD/Axe a bit, I've been thinking that I'd really love to fit in ET for more AoE goodness and the most disposable power seems to be... Cleave. Seems like blasphemy, I know, but consider: I have a full ST chain w/o Cleave, the cone is tiny narrow, and Gash & Swoop both have better DPAs than Cleave anyway. If you can reliably hit 2 mobs w/Cleave, you're better off w/it, but I think it's not worth the time to try to line it up.
So is Cleave skippable? Thoughts?
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