Fist Spells - range reduced?

These have always been rather short range, but has the range gotten shorter? Seems it is now melee instead of short. A bear can melee me with me being out of longsword range. Pretty sure that used to be close enough for Ice Fist, but no longer seems to be. Anyone else remember this or is my memory just bad here?

 

I just had this happen to me with a bear. I am using a 2 handed mace and the bear was in melee range hitting me and my avatar just stood there. I had to take a step up so I could swing. It may be a bug?

 

Using Icefist alone and with sword combo.
Have not seen any difference today.

 

Could this be due to the change to positioning to remove the adjustment for lag? (or however you describe it)

 

Shouldn't be. I facetank most things, so ending positions should end up the same. Maybe it is just the bears have more than the 3.2 Range my ice fist has and I never noticed before today.