Mace Clobber isn't actually AOE?

I took primary D stuff over attacks, but I took one that looked the best, further down, "Clobber". It says it is an AOE with 7 foot range and 5 targets max.

I have been unable to get it to hit two things, no matter how I face, or align them. I even had two lined up, one right behind the other, and still nothing. Even facing into a group of Rikti monkeys never hit more than one. I don't know how they define "7 feet", but it's clearly less than 3 feet, such that even a Rikti monkey right behind another, as close as possible, is too far away.


So is the description incorrect? I feel ripped off =D

Clobber is a single target attack (and an awesome one at that). The radius you are seeing is the radius of the Gauntlet taunt effect.

Whirling Mace, Shatter, and Crowd Control are your AoE attacks.

Have you read the stats of your other tanker attacks? They all, technically, hit multiple targets, just not with damage. What you're hitting with is the power of Gauntlet, the Tanker inherent power.

To be fair, the text confuses people, and we get this question every once in a while. A real-life friend of mine once asked me why his Tanker's AoEs were only hitting one enemy.

It's definitely poorly worded. I wonder if it's an auto-generated description.

Even so, that it's gauntlet providing the AOE and not the fact it's the mace attack proper, and this could be called out separately in the description. Calling it an AOE attack when it's not actually an AOE attack ("taunt" is, by very definition of being fake massive damage, not an actual "attack").

As I've chosen powers and slotting for tankiness first over attacks, I wanted the best AOE swing possible with my one non-baby, non-taunt attack, to wiffle-bat down groups, and that seemed like Clobber, based on damage and the fact it's AOE was the same, apparently, as other attacks.



Technically, gauntlet isn't even a property of the attack itself, in theory. It's a property of tanker.

Except that technically, Gauntlet is ONLY a property of attacks, and not anything to do with Tankers. "Gauntlet" doesn't exist, it's just a general property. In reality, it's coded into each power individually, and this is what you're seeing in the power descriptions. Granted, the description is confusing, but if a power takes melee damage sets, it's only single target. If it takes PBAoE sets, it's an AoE.

But Tankers have no true inherent power, just like Scrappers don't, or Controllers. Their "inherent" power is just coded into each attack.

Want to have fun with the "AOE" aspect of all tanker attacks? Slot Kinetic Combat: Knockdown Bonus in every one of your ST attacks. It's incredible; every time you hit, one or more enemies will fall on his butt. GREAT mitigation.

To help with this, though, people should always read what their attack does... it should point out if it's single target, ranged, an AOE of some sort, etc.

Yeah, but *that* is a bug. A ST attack is only suppose to 'hit' one target. Having procs checked when the effect of their set is used, especially something like a taunt set's proc in Gauntlet's case, should have the chance to take effect versus every viable target.