Talk:Nearby
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exact radius[edit]
Most nearby skills have a radius of 252 gwinches, but a handful are 240 gwinches. Of the ones 98 skills I tested, Aftershock, Dragon's Stomp, Earthquake, Flame Burst, Frozen Burst, Gust, Healing Ribbon, Incendiary Bonds, Liquid Flame, Phoenix, Rodgort's Invocation, Shatterstone, Stone Sheath, Winds of Disenchantment, and Whirlwind have this smaller radius. There may be more, but they are quite inconvenient to test. Mist Y (talk) 16:22, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
- I tested ALL of these skills and they all strike nearby on the test barrels in Isle of the Nameless. Justice (talk) 07:29, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
- Are the "nearby" barrels 252 gwinches away from the center? I get the feeling they weren't placed at the maximum nearby range, but somewhere "close enough" that adjacent skills definitely wouldn't hit but nearby definitely would without worrying about slight positioning errors (especially for the PBAoE circles). Toraen - talk 10:51, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
- that is a possibility. Its also possible that 240 is nearby range and 252 is actually above. They added these barrels as measuring sticks which more or less makes them "official". I seem to recall a table or chart somewhere with actual numbers. Maybe I can dig them up. Even so, what we have in game listed as nearby should probably still be respected. Justice (talk) 09:47, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
- Found it in the prima guide. nearby range is 20 feet. Which of course is 240 inches. Justice (talk) 13:19, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
- The prima guide isn't a reliable source.
- Nonetheless, as long as we don't know where the "nearby = 252 gwinches" comes from, I'd take the barrels as the primary authority here. Steve1 (talk) 19:25, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
- I presume he used a mod or something or even found a way to view skill values or something. The prima guide has a lot of discrete info that an experienced player can discern and sift through the incorrect stuff. Its annoying when people are so dismissive of it when something is wrong in it then it must all be wrong. Justice (talk) 20:17, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
- Found it in the prima guide. nearby range is 20 feet. Which of course is 240 inches. Justice (talk) 13:19, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
- that is a possibility. Its also possible that 240 is nearby range and 252 is actually above. They added these barrels as measuring sticks which more or less makes them "official". I seem to recall a table or chart somewhere with actual numbers. Maybe I can dig them up. Even so, what we have in game listed as nearby should probably still be respected. Justice (talk) 09:47, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
- Are the "nearby" barrels 252 gwinches away from the center? I get the feeling they weren't placed at the maximum nearby range, but somewhere "close enough" that adjacent skills definitely wouldn't hit but nearby definitely would without worrying about slight positioning errors (especially for the PBAoE circles). Toraen - talk 10:51, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
