Guild Wars 2

I’ve noticed that the mesmer’s phantasmal warden bubble is substantially smaller than the same bubble for a Norn mesmer. It seems like this is true of other classes and skills as well. There is another post about it here, but it seems to have gone mostly unnoticed: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/lore/asura/Asura-Skill-Size-Difference/first#post3541209

Do the actual effects of the skills depend on race as well or is it just a visual effect? Either the visual effect is misleading, or it seems like this is an unintentional balance issue.

99% certain this is just a visual bug. The skills are set to specific distances, etc – and while the model isn’t the same, each player’s actual pathing box is.

It’s just a visual bug. Most noticeable on the Guardian’s first staff skill. The visual effect is much smaller than the actual area hit. Annoying to learn how far you can get in and out of stuff for it to have an effect or not.