Game Mechanics: Bard Song Range, Melee Range Bugs

[GnomeCaptain]

On Teal I play a Bard, and sometimes I like to kite things around and kill them with dots.

But there is a major issue which makes this difficult and dangerous: my Bard gets hit by melee even though he is very far from the mobs.

And to make matters worse, the dot song (level 1) often doesn't connect even though I am close enough to get hit by melee.

So there are two problems
1) the Bard dot isn't connecting consistently, for a given range sometimes it hits, sometimes it doesn't;

2) mobs are able to inflict melee damage on my bard even though he is very far away from the mobs, so far away that the dot song doesn't connect.


Thanks

[uygi]

Bug report should be something along the lines of:

NPC melee dmg is X distance, should be Y.
Song ABC range is currently 40, should be 80.

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As it stands, this isn't as bug report, it's a complaint.

[Videri]

Mobs directly behind you can hit you from farther away. Either strafe diagonally or run a curved line to avoid this.

[supermonk]

p99 hitbox is weird..mobs will hit you from far away if you're not strafing, but i believe it's WAD