Opinions on the new range increases?

[Dzonathan]

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?

You'd think BLMs would figure out to graft Leylines on their skin like tattoos at this point. 7.0 maybe.

[NekoMataMata]

It's a mix of feelings.

I mean on one hand melee has been doing really well in a lot of newer content because of the increased sizes of hitboxes we've had. It probably shouldn't be like that, but it is, and because it is like that then it's only fair that everyone else gets the same treatment in regards to their heals and buffs.

[Izar_Chillen]

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

All we need now is for SQE to trait upgrade cure into cure2 and remove freecure trait

[Sorrowen]

I like the changes! It honestly has helped so much since sometimes when doing positioning and getting separated for safe spots in high end content makes it much easier to hit those folks who are just a few yalms too far out.

I do main all healers, but scholar so I can't really give an opinion on that. As someone who plays with low visibility on skill casts I don't really see issues with the AoE ground effects being too large.

The changes to DPS casts being larger has been HUGE. Actually seeing people use their role actions more often than they used to!

[Erinellza]

I don't play healer but as a RDM main, I'm glad everyone gets my Embolden now, even if I jump to the boss.
I'm talking about you ranged people pewpewing at max range. You're welcome. ;P

[einschwartz]

Okay, now that I've got into the new raids and EX, I'm coming back here to say that the huge healing bubbles adds to visual clutter especially when it covers the entire arena.
When bosses start casting with certain colors it does make important things like waymarks hard to see amongst the blurr of animations.
While this is minimal and doesn't give me a headache or anything, it is a slight annoyance to anyone who likes to have visual clarity when doing battle content.

Below is an example from EX6 (under spoiler just in case).

It'd be a lot better if we could zoom out slightly more at this point.

[Hyperia]

I know what caused them to increase healer spell / ability ranges, it was P8S during the mechanic where everybody has to spread out to the four corners and that cause some people to not get healed and wipe the raid. While it's easy enough to address those concerns with proper heal timing, it still happened on rare occasions. Instead of accepting this, every healer essentially now has near-arena wide heals. I am surprised that AST was not upgraded from Earthly Galaxy to Earthly Universe or maybe Earthly Multiverse where the heals are so large they heal you into the next few pulls!

[Bunnycake]

Taken from a shitpost
https://www.reddit.com/r/ShitpostXIV...a_time_travel/