Guild Wars 2

Elementalist’s Fireball reaches 1500 range at least, tooltip claims 1200.
The lava font pictured is at 1200, the fireball doing damage reaches far further, approximately 1500, measured by a grenadier’s range.
I suspect it goes even further, but that is difficult to replicate unless I can get an enemy to stand where I was, I can not reach garrison’s clifftop from the ground below as a grenadier, but an elementalist was easily reaching an arrowcart on top.

-Also applies to Water Blast, testing it on the same golem.
-Fiery Greatsword’s Fiery Whirl move the user by I guess 1000, tooltip: 900.

What’s the splash range on fireball/Water Blast?
Its likely the cause.

1200 range + aoe range

Isn’t there a trait that increases range?

You two didn’t even bother to open the image did you? But sure I’ll humor you, the radius is 90.
The Lava Font in front of the golem has a radius of 120, both should be 1200 range.

-There is a trait for staff spell radius, none for range.

I did open the picture and I see what you’re talking about (and there’s no way that’s splash damage, even accounting for how most AoE is actually slightly wider than it’s damage ring indicates), there are just so many traits between the eight classes it’s hard for me to remember who has +range and who has +width (and I wasn’t sure if +range would apply to an AoE), thus my question.

Clearly something isn’t right then. Could it be something to do with where this is? Some rule that’s not being applied here?

Managed to bait an ele into firing at me with an arrow cart, the red reticle is my grenadier 1500 not being able to reach the ground floor, he is clearly even further than that.

Can still shoot to 1500, 1/28 patch.

I think it went up to 1600, 3/26 patch.

About time a Staff Ele get’s some love Considering how ridiculously slow the skill is.