You can't go around and consider facts that annoy you opinions.

Not all of the post may apply to what you said, but your arguments have been addressed.
Anyway, I'll go again in greater details.

Here are some facts:
- Stacking is due to the target cap.
- stacking is a dominant strategy(look up game/decision theory)
- people that don't know about the cap spread out.
- ranged aoes are of maximum 6m radius.
- pbaoes are between 8 and 10m radius.
- aoes need a minimum amount of targets to be as efficient cost/damage than single target.

If you find yourself disagreeing with any of this, you're not expressing an opinion, you are being wrong.

As heals can be used up to 28m and grand healing has a radius of 8m, we can assume a large group would spread organicaly over a zone of 20m radius as inteligent agents try to heal/benefit from heals. That's what we can see in normal gameplay with people not exploiting the target cap. Not to mention that wall breaches are around that width too.

That's an area of 1256.64 m2.
For a group of 40, that's a player density of 0,0318 player per square meter.
For 24, that would be 0.019.

Of course these are average, and players flow during battle. We also can't asume players are perfectly stupid nor perfectly smart, but let's go for the worst case cenario of players never dodging, just to estimate the maximum power of aoes:

Lightning flood has a radius of 6m, an area of 113.097m2
For group of 24: 2,16 target hit.
For 40: 3,6 target hit.

Impulse, 8m, 201,062m2
24: 3,82
40: 6,30

So the worst case, with perfectly bad players, aoes can barely reach the 6 targets they are now guaranteed.

So to answer your post: No, 4 people won't be able to take on a zerg. They may be able to harass it, focus firing a few at a time and get away. But certainly not while defending.
What matters is that the fear of being one shotted will be sufficient to keep everyone on their toes.

There are rarely any pve situations where the target cap took effect.
I think it was just a misguided move aimed at pvp.

But to be frank, I doubt anyone can rationalize why it was implemented, not until we get an explanation from the devs.

There are people still complaining about AoE caps? You probably complain when your zerg wipes.

And another one.

Good job Zenimax, you've clearly succeeded at meaking awesome AvA PvP that you guys promised. *rollseyes*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=882JKlFucAw

It's not about zerg vs small groups, it's about removing a dominant strategy from the game to add variety to the gameplay.

Also, It is important to not confuse potential damage and effective damage.
WIthout target caps, people will spread out whenever possible so aoe attacks will actually become less potent. It will go from 6 guaranteed targets to around 2 to 4 depending on the situation.

Well aoe caps are the root cause and their reveal was the trigger to many of the problematic behaviors we can see in the game.

It's akway better to name the diseases rather than the symptoms.

Also, it isn't a complex issue. It's just that zos has a very slow decision process.
Look at how slow they are at changing even the smallest numeric value. It's just their style.

Vizier wrote: »

No AOE cap isn't going to fix a damn thing and in fact will just power up everyone with more ultimate...like that is what we need.

Um, no. All they need is to add an Ultimate cap.

Example: you hit 20 people, but you only get Ultimate from 6 people.

Nobody wants Ultimate spam.