A better solution is to make all missiles slow moving ballistic projectiles. This would make it much more difficult to hit ranged targets with them and would act as an effective maximum range. Skiliing into a missile turret speed skill would increase the missiles travel speed and thus their range (it would also reduce their arc). No damage or AoE nerf needed.

Hmm. I thought a 2.6m blast radius WAS AOE. Looks like you will need to find a new flavor of the month.

gizmo reading over the changes i disagree u actually seem to get more AoE than reduced.
hear me out

missiles shot pretty straight before with large splash and damage with adding "dispersion" aka spread ur missiles wont actually be that straight anymore but more spread out so u actually are gaining more AoE.
they would have to reduce the splash damage a bit since the missiles are now shooting over a wider area because now u run the risk of splash damage from each missile overlapping thus making a wider killzone since before missiles all were somewhat straight the overall splash zone would not be large

that said if u think nerfing missiles is catering to scrubs idk wtf game ur playing considering the only thing u see are missiles which take no skill to aim unlike blasters or rails and would OHK anything with splash alone.......