I have always known that tauren have larger hitbox. But is this accurate? Those basically are ranged attacks.
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They confirmed it a few weeks back. Their hitboxes are working as intended.
It doesn’t really benefit you much though since not only can you hit from further out you can be hit from further out.
Edit: Except when fighting a mage or anyone else trying to use an aoe on you. Frost nova would require the mage to be closer than just their melee. All targeted abilities take hitboxes into account in their formula.
That means, you know, umm, gnomes…
Smaller hitboxes.
Yeah, I said it.
Yes. Well, that’s really it.
Eh? No, they have normal hit boxes.
It effectively is advantageous agaisnt any class, namely ranged that is trying to kite you. Being able to get that last second hamstring/rend is pretty big. Not to mention that last second attack that could mean the difference between forcing a defensive / getting a kill.
I never realized just how ridiculous the extra range actually was. I always assumed it was marginal
Nah the math on it is I think 2.2 yards or something.
It’s only this ridiculous in the clip you posted because it’s tauren v tauren, which makes the increased range twice as much (attacker has the benefit of larger melee range + the target’s hitbox is larger). It won’t be this bad in Classic, since you won’t have a tauren/tauren matchup in 99% of scenarios.
It was pretty insane during TBC when you’d have tauren warrior v tauren druid matchups in arenas and the warrior would be hitting the druid through the pillars.
My recollection was that during Vanilla, all races had a 5-foot reach on their melee attacks, except Tauren which had 8-foot range.
Frost Nova is 10-foot radius, so in theory a mage could nova a tauren outside of melee range. But it was very very difficult to do.
This is a good point, I didn’t think of that so in essence tauren v tauren results in an additional 4.4 yards so in essence he is potentially attacking from 9.4 yards away …which is pretty nutty. Though outside a friendly duel or gurubashi arena this will never really happen in the world or battlegrounds
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Gnomes have a smaller hitbox. I dont know how much smaller but smaller.
Edit: you know what maybe not. I know thats common belief. I have a resource for deadzone calculations and its saying gnomes are normal… so…
Sounds like a bug!
apparently hunters also have larger hit boxes. So the fact it’s 2 tauren hunters makes it like that.
Hunters dont just tauren. Hunter’s have a deadzone… which is even different. They also have the longest range for abilities iirc.
I know what a deadzone is I understand that. But what I heard somewhere cant remember where, is that hunter hitzones work a bit different also.
The deadzone is the only thing I know of that makes it work different. No other class has that. I may be wrong though and they do have a different hitbox thing going on but nothing I have says otherwise. I have more hunter references than any other class…
warrior and rogue both say Hi for having deadzones. Our range weapons still have a min range to use. I cant remember how credible the source is that I heard it from. so don’t really know.
It would lead to hilarious situations. Like a Tauren swinging at what appeared to be empty air and killing a running gnome anyway.
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Melee range is supposed to be 5 yards or less. But while I can’t find anything else to the contrary, wiki suggests there are exceptions to this rule.
melee 5 yards tauren have 1 extra yard at 6 100%. So 2 tauren = 12 yards?