Board Thread:Wiki discussions and announcements/@comment-3974211-20160811212848/@comment-1330314-20160811225626

I was one of the main advocates for shifting ranges to the top bar, and still am somewhat in favor of that, though I agree the above example is pretty egregious (it is, however, the worst case out there, along with ). My original reasoning behind that was that in-line descriptions should try to convey the core function of an ability as directly as possible, and so should try to be as free of secondary data as possible, with exceptions going to non-scaling effects. I also think ranges should be in a similar space: the advantage to a top bar display is that it lists the cast range, radius, etc. of a spell in a section a user can easily remember and check quickly; by contrast, an in-line description requires the user to go through a bunch of text to get to the data point they're looking for.

With that said, it might be better for both presentation and information to use tooltips for ranges in-line, and perhaps do the same for other numbers, e.g. the strength and duration of non-scaling CC, the casting delay of abilities, and the duration of buffs or debuffs. It'd be nice to de-clutter ability descriptions completely, particularly since we're getting increasingly lengthier entries, and ideally we'd want every user to be able to get a good understanding of an ability's basic workings just by skimming through, while being able to find the exact numbers on what they'd like with minimal effort.