Guild Wars 2

Just “duelled” an elementalist from Seafarers server, who kept hitting me (note: we were standing still, cause it was on small isles of the jumping puzzle) from well beyond spell max range (he used fireballs and also meteor shower and lava font) while I only got (of course, cause the range was absurd) “out of range” messages. What’s up with that, ANet? :-p

You were out of range…

Not only did you not mention what class/range of weapon you were using, what you described isn’t an “exploit” at all. Fireballs, arrows, trebuchets, etc follow a ballistic trajectory wherein the projectile can travel further than the indicated maximum range. Also, I believe the indicated range on an aoe spell is the center of the circle, so the radius would extend further than that.

tl;dr: you got outplayed

Except projectiles CAN’T travel further than the maximum range or my engineer would be able to tag things from further than 1200 units away.

In the trait skills there is abilites to shoot further for the engineer and ranger. I’m not sure about other professions.
Does not say how much further, but its beyond 1200 units.

Actually, the fireball can indeed travel a bit beyond its limits, especially on higher ground. Even on even ground it goes just a smidge further than 1200 and the AOE is roughly 100-200ish radius? Hence its effective range is like 1400.

Oh, and I have tested this a little with friends in PvP. Hard to get exact numbers in GW2 but the above numbers are pretty close at least.

Chrysalis.5983:

Except projectiles CAN’T travel further than the maximum range or my engineer would be able to tag things from further than 1200 units away.

Bullets don’t behave the same way arrows/fireballs/trebs do.

Also note that if someone shoots at you from that range, you can just take a step to the left or right to avoid the shot. Dont even need to roll.

Longbow rangers can hit things up to 1500 range.

Problem is range aint range.

Take my thief. 900 pistol range is alot shorter than 900 shortbow range. That again is shorter than warriour longbow 900 range thats again almost close to 1200 range even tho it says 900.