Guild Wars 2

Hey folks.

Just curious if I`ve missed something.

Was in Eternal puzzle earlier & an Ele` was hitting me with fire yet I couldn`t due to “out of range”.
Is there a trait to extend our range (can`t find one but…/shrug) or is this due to them being lower/me higher etc or worse, hacks?

The range they were hitting me at was more akin to Rangers range.

Range can make a difference. Also, keep in mind that the range of fireball is is actually a little over 1.3k

If they’re higher, it has a longer range.

The fireball has spash AE damage, which can be improved in size by traits. That way a fireball that lands at 1200 can do damage further. Also as mentioned, height differences matter in this game.

This is where we were scrapping.

The bit that`s to the right, platform with dragon mouths/flames is where they were for quite some time.

He was able to hit me directly from there (stood near the centre area) even though I backed off to the far side of the controls, yet when I`m stood on the edge nearest to that platform I couldn`t hit them.

Then when they were stood here (shown in picture) they were able to hit me (directly again, not splashes) & I couldn`t get range most of my shots to hit them. (Also a bit of LoS doesn`t work here it seems)

As I said, splash damage and improved AE radius goes a LONG way with fireball.

And I’m just curious, did you actually try to hit him yourself with a fireball, or did you just watch the red distance bar under the spell to decide what you can or can’t do?

There`s a distance bar? Huh, never knew.

As an Ele` I`m always casting one or twelve sparkles, we`re squishie enough without not trying to hit things

Fishbait.6723:

There`s a distance bar? Huh, never knew.

The little red bar under each skill is the distance bar. If the red bar is shown, you’re out of range. If the bar is gone, you’re in range.

For example, in the screenshot posted, your 1, 2, and 3 skills are out of range (the red bar is showing) but skills #4 and #5 are within range.

Cool thanks, in all the time in BWEs/Stress tests & live never once noticed those lol
Will come in handy, what with some spells not being their tooltip range, Fire signet et al

Fishbait.6723:

There`s a distance bar? Huh, never knew.

As an Ele` I`m always casting one or twelve sparkles, we`re squishie enough without not trying to hit things

Chain Lightning has no splash damage, fireball hits further because it does.

I was mainly using fire as tends to splatter, but Air hits multiple targets so I switched about at times.