Opinions on the new range increases?

[Tint]

Asylum is comically large.

At this point they can just add an off-GCD party HoT and the healbuff without the bubble at all.

But we already have Plenary which is a heal buff. And Temperance which is a heal buff plus party mitigation...

They have to prune this in 7.0, this is pure button bloat, but for the moment it's fine I guess.

Or in other words:

The bubble lost it's flavor. Now it can go anyway...

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

At first I was skeptical, however with some of the arena designs in 6.4, I can see the viability of doing this. It allows them to utilise comically large hitboxes for bosses and more arena space for more mechanics without making the buff application a limiting factor.

Overall, ok I guess.

[Aword3213]

I hope the change was made to accomodate more innovative and interesting mechanics/boss areana in the future. Otherwise, I think it's kind of uneccessary.

BTW, Black Mage when?

[einschwartz]

The range changes to buffs and and healing bubbles almost certainly means huge boss hitbox and arena are staying going forward.
Which is sigh, whatever.

You can make sense to it with the new raids we get but, when you do Unreal for example, it is just... LMFAO.


EDIT:
I went into Titan for the giggles.

[GaiusDrakon]

Game is made for people with lesions in their brains what's new

[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.

[Atelier-Bagur]

Personally I always felt party wide buffs should be able to hit every member not matter what so Im fine with them increasing the range for them.

I thought the shield aoes sizes where already fine before but Im not complaining about the increased range of it either.

Im just fine with it personally

[Ivtrix]

came one patch too late, brutally needed for omega protocol

[Deceptus]

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.

Simple solution, set party effects to minimal.

[Aelin_Ashryver]

Considering the bosses are so large that standing in positions around it put you at the very edge of many skills I am glad they increased the range.