Opinions on the new range increases?

[ioeth]

Personally I find that the new healing bubble changes are incredibly intrusive in terms of appearance. I personally play on a small enough screen that the bubbles will take up a good chunk of it. I can't even see the top of the dang thing. It also feels like an un-needed change? It's not exactly going to stop people from standing outside of it and frankly I almost feel like the people who already don't stand in it are going to be standing even further out because they don't realise it's for healing and not the boss dumping an AoE in said circle.

[PredatoryCatgirl]

I play healer primarily in PUGs. There's always some ranged or caster who doesn't get that just because they can stand halfway to Narnia doesn't mean they should.

[Avoidy]

I play healer primarily in PUGs. There's always some ranged or caster who doesn't get that just because they can stand halfway to Narnia doesn't mean they should.

Even when they boosted the radius of skills like earthy star and asylum in base EW, I still had these ranged people stand just outside of it somehow. Even with further increases, I bet you anything we'll still get these people who manage to be just outside it somehow. Whenever I see this kind of thing despite the developers straight up hammering out the game to prevent this kind of thing from happening, I just think about that part from Jurassic Park where Ian Malcolm is like:

[Renathras]

A bit...odd.

Only been playing SCH so far since 6.4, and it's like "Good god, Soil is HUGE!"

I don't DISlike it, per se. It's just...so big. It's like, it's ALMOST too convenient, if that makes sense? Deployment Tactics, on the other hand, feels REALLY good. Maybe because it's a fire and forget rather than a lingering effect and because it was often easy to miss people before. It is funny seeing a few people still stand just outside it. Wesk Alber was right. Though now it's almost like they can't escape, which is mildly hilarious. I dunno, I guess my vote goes to:

"It feels weird, but I'm okay with it."

[VirusOnline]

A bit...odd.

Only been playing SCH so far since 6.4, and it's like "Good god, Soil is HUGE!"

I don't DISlike it, per se. It's just...so big. It's like, it's ALMOST too convenient, if that makes sense?

I haven't played in a bit, but just from first thought...

In casual play sure, w/e. But, people are generally already stacked up enough already so it's sorta eh.
In high end play I feel like it may come to erase the mechanics of healer AoEs, further dismisses healer planning, enables non-healers to continue ignoring their environment.
Healing is already easy. What is SE thinking ? What are they trying to make obselete here ? (just me thinking)

The change doesn't really make sense and it wasn't a QoL issue.
It has always been a player issue ie the BRD on the very pixel corner of a platform.

[ioeth]

Yeah it definitely feels convenient but I also feel like the bubbles were already a good size and the change was unneeded. I think my main fear is that they're going to make an extra big arena to justify the change to the size

[Iyrnthota]

Yeah it definitely feels convenient but I also feel like the bubbles were already a good size and the change was unneeded. I think my main fear is that they're going to make an extra big arena to justify the change to the size

More than likely it's the other way around. Just from the normal mode raids it's clear that there's going to be a lot of light party split across quite large distances.

They probably sketched out some basic designs for this savage tier and decided that in order to make it workable they'd need to extend some ability ranges.

Personally I quite like them tbh. Particularly for abilities where the exact range isn't very visually clear, like a lot of raid buffs.

[Rithy255]

It's a small change that makes everything easier, While it's not really a bad change, I feel like this only serves to simplify things more and more.
Personally though it's a change I like at least, so I'm not really complaining but I'm cautious still about such changes because of what's happened to raid buffs all synching in endwalker.

[CidHeiral]

Not a fan of the soil change specifically. It was already overly big IMO but still took at least one brain cell of thought to place in a good spot, which I found fun. Now it covers practically the entire arena so you can just randomly plop it pretty much anywhere and cover everyone. What's the point of having a ground target ability if you remove what makes those abilities engaging to use?

[grinkdaboy]

it's especially nice on reaper because i don't have to worry about chuckleheads being out in narnia causing me to lose a stack now