Quote Originally Posted by Chopstix View Post
absolutely not, i remember having to be fairly far out in UWU ifrit to be able to hit both close nails as well while targeting the boss, im sure xeno has some footage of doing it himself somewhere
At this point, I'm going to hold my hands up and say, I goofed. I made the initial assumption that cone AoEs that showed the same radius would all be the same and my late night brain/early morning brain wasn't thinking straight (but that is just an excuse). You can easily tell something isn't right when look at, say Scattergun or Ladonsbite, both are range/radius 12y, but there is no way it is as wide as Reapers cone AoEs. Another thing that tipped me off was line AoEs, there is no way Flood of Shadow/Shadowbringers has a radius of 10y, at least, not in the way you would expect (in my head, it would imply width), let's not even mention Chain Saw/Resolution and their 25y.

However, I believe this does bring up a flaw in the tooltips, in that, it is not clear how big a cone or line AoE is.

Now, the system as it is works fine for circular AoEs, Range 0 Radius 5, you are the centre, radius 5 from the middle, Range 20 Radius 5, As long as your target is upto 20 away, you can use it, and it has a radius of 5 AoE from that target. Range 3 Radius 0, those are you single target actions. Easy.

Going onto cones, using MCH Scattergun, Range 12 Radius 12. That doesn't tell me anything. I know the enemy has to be within 12 to use it, but what of the size of the cone? If I can hit anything within 12y, I don't need to know that the radius is also 12y, it is telling you the same info. It should be changed, in my opinion, to show how wide the cone is, say 120 degrees, or, in the case of reaper, closer to 180. So it would look more like, Range 12 Width 120 (no idea if that is accurate for Scattergun btw). And it would be the same with line AoEs, they do the same thing as cones, but I don't need 2 things to tell me how far it can go, tell me the furthest distance I can use it and either the full width or half the width (personally I would say full width), so, rather than Radius, it said Width instead.