[2019] Why does Melee have to heavily invest into AOE but Rangers dont have to invest into Projectile Speed at all?

Originally posted by Suicidal_Baby

proj speed increases proj range. "base proj speed is too high to matter." should be your statement.

yes, the downvotes have spoken. I get it, I'm wrong. It's safe to say you can lay off at this point. This type of shit is why people delete posts. But im gonna leave it here so people understand what was said. Stop being pricks with the system and creating an echo chamber.

Originally posted by darthbane83

Well projectile skills have 2 ways to be targeted either you target a location and the projectile reaches that location to do something i.ex. tornadoshot or you target a direction and projectiles just go(i.ex. ice shot).

In the ice shot case they need to have a maximum range or duration. A maximum range can be translated into a maximum duration at normal projectile speed.
It should always be possible to use projectile speed as range modifying parameter for skills with that kind of targeting. Since afaik there is a maximum practical range before skill effects just become inactive and disappear it shouldnt really break anything and allows to set the duration real high for balance purposes(ball lightning and frostbolt come to mind as skills that should feel playable with relatively slow projectiles aswell).

In the case of targeting a point for the projectile to do something(tornado shot) that secondary effect will be a new projectile or an area. As such its limited by the same things as melee attacks are or by the same things as projectiles of the iceshot case.
For example it seems entirely plausible to balance secondary tornadoshot projectiles with slower pojectiles and no faster projectile investment to not reach a second pack.

As far as I can tell it should be possible to use existing mechanics to make sure aoe/proj speed investment is required for every skill to clear entire screens of mobs even if its not the case right now.