Unless Presence size gets a massive buff I'll never use minions, totems, auras or debuffs again.

I play minions using stoic sceptre as presence indicator. I also use mainly ranged minions so keeping them in my presence radius is no problem.

Is presence just another drawback mechanic? What's the point of it being in the game instead of just having the effect?

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Sakanabi#6664 schrieb:

I play minions using stoic sceptre as presence indicator. I also use mainly ranged minions so keeping them in my presence radius is no problem.

Good general advice to minimize issues with the current presence design.

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Is presence just another drawback mechanic? What's the point of it being in the game instead of just having the effect?

Basically. Devs went way to hard on limiting the utility value (AoE) of presence instead of caring about balancing the actual mechanics that reference presence. Although few presence mechanics are even abnormally strong to begin with.

Bump! When playing together due to the small area of presence you need to stay close to each other. It's uncomfortable. Sometimes, because of this, you can die together at once, accidentally falling under a slam. The base area of presence should be increased at least 2 times.

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Well don't use them. Go on hunger strike.

4 meters is 6.6 meters with the spirit node cluster.

And this goes more or less to the bottom of your screen.

Now, if you plan to stay two screens away, you are in the wrong game anyway.

I never had a problem keeping permanent presence, even on a mix of melee and caster specters.

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4 meters is 6.6 meters with the spirit node cluster.

And this goes more or less to the bottom of your screen.

That isn't how AoE scales. AoE increases affect the total surface area of the circle rather than the radius. A 65% AoE increase will only get the radius to 5.14m. To reach 6.6m you would need 172% increased AoE.

The bottom of the screen is also not really that far from your character too. Often times enemies and sometimes minions will still be farther away than the closest screen border to your character. The farthest edges of the screen are about ~12m. It's actually a common player complaint that enemies will attack them from offscreen, generally above or below out of sight. Even if presence radius was buffed it would still require AoE investment for consistency.

Then to the bottom of the screen is 5.14m

It is almost to the bottom...