so i see tauren have huge hitboxs, but does the hitbox change when going from tauren to cat/travle form?
Yes. Each druid form has a hitbox that is separate from your normal hitbox.
Notably, the cat form hitbox is tiny, you need to be right up on something to melee it.
Also if I remember right DW builds (Rogues / Warriors) also have a reduced range like feral for their direct melee attacks.
Blade flurry and Warrior AE attacks are exempt if I remember correctly.
Any targeted ability accounts for unit displacement (hitbox of both attacker and defender) in the formula. AoE abilities however don’t. (WW is AoE)
They don’t. Melee reach is not affected by the kind of weapon equipped.
Cat form has a normal hit box. It’s autoattacks and abilities have different detection ranges and the hit box is located in the center of the model instead of at the head or forefeet of the cat model.
So to attack some mobs from behind require you to shove your head literally up their bum.
That’s what I love about cat form… How far up their bum my head goes.
Being located in the center could explain it, I didn’t actually play a druid in Vanilla so my knowledge is not completely accurate!
It was an oft repeated complaint on the Druid forums that it felt like they had a shorter range.
Cat form was bugged. We could autoattack a mob but not use special abilities and the game would declare you “out of range”.
Instead of addressing that, blizz added the best change ever, moving ears.
So your head is up your enemy’s bum, and your ears are moving, and you are too far away to slap them.