Range vs Area

[null]

What's the difference and why is it not 1 stat?

[Zefar]

Range is for how long away the attack will travel. Can use the warrior as an example. His attack will hit further the higher the range is.
The Exterminator class has his skilled affected by both because his projectile will travel longer and the area will increase it's size.

Area will affect the size of hits and it should affect the warrior as well but it's probably meant for the auras and explosive hits.
But Area will not increase the distance the skill travel.

[Ulyaoth]

Hi,

I will use the Swordsman to explain:
Range will increase his lenght or reach of his attack,
Area the width of his attack.

On Thunder Strike you cant increse the range, because the attack is "global",
but you can increase the area effect of the impacts.

Cheers!

[null]

What about Radiant Aura?

Going by swordman's example, range should increase the coverage outward, but it makes no sense for area to do nothing eithe.

[Ulyaoth]

Originally posted by null:

What about Radiant Aura?

Going by swordman's example, range should increase the coverage outward, but it makes no sense for area to do nothing eithe.

Like @Zefar said Radiant Aura is affected by Area and not by Range.

On the Swordsman Range increase the coverage outward and Area to the sides.

[null]

Oh. I'm stupid.
Didn't notice he mentioned auras.

Still think it should either be 1 stat, unless they can give it a a non-ambiguous name.

[Ulyaoth]

Originally posted by null:

Oh. I'm stupid.
Didn't notice he mentioned auras.

Still think it should either be 1 stat, unless they can give it a a non-ambiguous name.

if you read the tooltip of both, the description made it pretty clear for me.

[trogus1]

area makes your attacks wider and range makes them reach further, its not that hard to figure out.

[null]

Originally posted by trogus1:

area makes your attacks wider and range makes them reach further, its not that hard to figure out.

Is it? Zefar already laid out the facts on mechanics, but the wording is still ambiguous, even as you try to explain it. Let's take your explanation and replace the word "attack" with "aura".
"Area makes your auras wide, range makes them reach further."

See how It's saying the same thing twice? It's because "reach" is synonymous with "radius" for both cones and circular effects reaching outward from your character. Increasing radius increases the area.

I think the problem is with cone attacks. If you use "Area" to scale cone length (instead of range), everything in game works the same (and move cone width to weapon-specific upgrade). Now cone "reach" scales off range and and aura reach (which is just a 360° cone) scales from Area.

[Halfshell]

Its basically length vs width, but cone also affects size and area making it better because it affects more abilities. Range may affect projectile uptime tho? Any Warlock mains confirm?

[trogus1]

Originally posted by null:

Originally posted by trogus1:

area makes your attacks wider and range makes them reach further, its not that hard to figure out.

Is it? Zefar already laid out the facts on mechanics, but the wording is still ambiguous, even as you try to explain it. Let's take your explanation and replace the word "attack" with "aura".
"Area makes your auras wide, range makes them reach further."

See how It's saying the same thing twice? It's because "reach" is synonymous with "radius" for both cones and circular effects reaching outward from your character. Increasing radius increases the area.

I think the problem is with cone attacks. If you use "Area" to scale cone length (instead of range), everything in game works the same (and move cone width to weapon-specific upgrade). Now cone "reach" scales off range and and aura reach (which is just a 360° cone) scales from Area.

my guy its literally as simple as i stated. plus radiant aura is the only "aura" attack and it scales with area and range. you're trying to make this more complicated than it is.

[Ulyaoth]

Originally posted by Halfshell:

Its basically length vs width, but cone also affects size and area making it better because it affects more abilities. Range may affect projectile uptime tho? Any Warlock mains confirm?

The summon get "thicker" with Area, but they seem to be affacted with duration in terms of travel time. Its hard to tell, even when you reduce the time, they float all over the place for very long.

[80hd]

Does no one use Radiant Aura, or do we just not understand how a ring works?

Auras are circles. You can even consider Astronomer's Orbs if that makes it easier... how does range affect Astronomer's Orbs? How does area?

We don't need another explanation on how it works with swordsman's main attack. That is painfully obvious.

[Ulyaoth]

Radiant Aura is affected by Area and the radius gets increased.
In case of Astronomer's Orbs, Range influences the distanze to the character.
Area increases the Orb diameter.