Does Reach Grant Larger Melee Aoe Attacks?

[Ishki88]

For example the heat sword.

 

Does it create a larger fire AOE?

 

If no, why not?

 

The damage is minimal.  Can we get this changed maybe?  

 

 

-Low Damage

 

+Bigger Range with Reach

[Athros]

Yes. Every melee attack type was affected, but since it depends on base weapon range, it's much more useful on heavy weapon / weapons with moderate to large AoE range.

[CubedOobleck]

By AoE you mean the mid air melee slam?

 

Unfortunately, the last time I checked reach wasn't making the slam any larger, but that was a long time ago, maybe it's time to check again.

 

An easy way to check is to find a corpus camera and slam the ground at various ranges to find a spot barely out of range, then exit and put reach on and try to slam again from the same distance.