Can the range on the HellFire be increased?

[Ynnub]

I recently got the Hellfire and I want to increase the range on it. I tried using the Fae Hunter Ring and switching to the Hunter to increase the range on it but all my testing has shown that the weapons range doesn't seem to increase with the range trait or the ring. Can the weapons range be increased or no because it is a flamethrower or is it a bug?

[Kai]

It's probably because the 'range' only affects guns that shoots actual projectiles that flies at specific velocities.

Nebula and Hellfire are emitters of particles that flies much slower and have a shorter range, even if you raise it, their animation keeps to the same range hence shows that it's based on animation as you are spawning flame/gas entities not a actual projectile... Think of the entities spawned being like a actual 'damaging' character.

I'd say that the devs never intended to fully implement all the modifiers to literally be changable with mods and mutators... That or they failed to consider that players might want to slap a range extender to a build that uses shorter range weapons.