If these abilities prioritized the farthest targets in range of the skill it would be a massive improvement to the skill, while still being limited to 6 players within a medium range. Just now the skill would act more intelligently than before.
These classes have a lot of problems right now finding groups for city for obvious reasons, but I think this simple change to how an ability selects targets can be a push in the right direction for more organized warbands to consider running them.
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