Talk:Bard/@comment-26996560-20150918061409/@comment-7837708-20150921002359

There are still times where you would really want it to last 2,5 seconds in close range. Let's say your jungler is on their way or you want to put the enemy turret in stasis, in both cases you want it to last as long as possible even if you're standing right next to them. Or just ulting someone while you kill their teammates. And if the duration were a lot longar at the highest range it might be to good at stopping baron and allowing engages.

I think it's enough that it has the potential to be used at that range, even if it's hard to hit an enemy you can still save allies/stop objectives with it (and in some rare cases stop Karthus from ulting), while still doing crazy engages at half range.