Staff ranges bugged or misrepresented?

Staff ranges bugged or misrepresented?

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Posted by: Thunderbrew.7034

Thunderbrew.7034

I used the target dummies in the mists to test the range on Staff and
I was surprised at the results. Go into fire attunement and keep autoattacking
a dummy and backing up slowly until you find your max range.

Now, try the other 3 attunements. You are out of range. Fire attunement with
staff has a much longer range (100-200 yards?) or the other 3 are not
1200 range as stated.

Than I found something even stranger. Go into water attunement and find
your max range. Now hit Ice Spike so you see the green circle and see you max
limit to the target. Its NO WHERE near the target. Try your other 1200 range
abilities as well, they are all way short.

What gives? Either the auto attacks on the Staff attunements are farther
than stated, or the range on spells is NOT 1200. I suspect the latter, since when
you look at Lava Font for example, I am not convinced thats 1200 range.

Something is definitely amiss with Staff ranges, both autoattacks as stated
and spells ranges.

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Posted by: Caffynated.5713

Caffynated.5713

It seems like the range is for when the projectile will hit the target in the chest. The projectile doesn’t dissappear when it reachs that range and will keep going until it hits the ground. Water and earth attacks do the same thing, but their arch is steeper, so the range is a bit shorter, plus fireball has a 90 radius aoe effect that extends it’s range a little bit more.

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Posted by: rhodoc.2381

rhodoc.2381

In fire attunment you can hit target in 1200+120 (FireBall aoe range) range. That’s the reason.

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Posted by: Thunderbrew.7034

Thunderbrew.7034

Never would have guessed that, thanks! Still find it odd though,
since in order to get the aoe you would have to initially hit the
target which is 1200 range.

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Posted by: Einlanzer.1627

Einlanzer.1627

Also, you’ll notice that the other 3 attunements are supposed to be faster than Fire but they actually aren’t.

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Posted by: SuiRyuJin.4615

SuiRyuJin.4615

fireball goes way more than 1.2k range simply because the projectile doesnt disappear nearly as fast as most others. it is also one of the atk that benefit most from height advantage, u actually do get to hit further since it doesnt disappear at 1.2k

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