AOE shrunk?

Hades Tartarus

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Aug 2006

texas

E/Me

I noticed that during the preview my ele was getting a lot closer to enemies whenever he tried to nuke em. This was only during GWEN preview areas. Nothing like that happened in other areas.
Is this something to be expected whenever in the new areas? The enemies knocked the heck out of us before I could even set up properly. Archane echo has no chance, so I tried to just meteor shower them, got it off the ground 40% of the time.
Any thoughts?

Stormlord Alex

Stormlord Alex

Grotto Attendant

Join Date: Dec 2005

Beyond the Forest of Doom, past the Cavern of Agony... on Kitten & Puppy Island

Soul of Melandru [sOm]

W/E

... Stop echo nuking and Sac before Shower?
Mind Blast is a better build all round, echo-showers are dated.

Seriously though? There was a few interrupts flying around... Well KDs at any rate, the Centaurs, Jotun, Drakes, Mandragor, Elementals and Wurms all have ways of KDing the hell outta you, it's hard to get off a retarded spell like MS.
I didn't really notice my spellcasting range shortened, tbh, though.

Retribution X

Retribution X

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Nov 2005

Check behind you again.

N/

I noticed a shorter casting range today, mostly when I was face-down on the ground...

they seemed to need to be in aggro range for some spells.

JeniM

Desert Nomad

Join Date: May 2007

W/E

I was capping today and back to Hundred Blades, and i actually thought the "adjasenct to" was smaller range than i remembered, can't be or the dummys on noob isle would need moving but it did seem shorter

Rikimaru

Rikimaru

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Dec 2005

R/

Have you used Hundred Blades before? It has a much smaller AoE range than character-centered AoE attacks like Cyclone Axe.