Suggestion: Make sprint "turn on only"

Currently pressing "sprint" toggles the function. This has always felt a bit weird since there are few occasions when you want to turn sprint off, and in any case you do so naturally by using other skills.

With button response being miserable since 7.1, one frequently has to jab repeatedly at buttons to activate them. In the specific case of sprint, it's therefore possible to turn it on and off when wanting it on.

This can be rectified by any pressing of sprint either turning it on or leaving it in the "on" position.

But... how is this actually happening? Sprint is literally on the GCD, you have a full GCD before being able to use it again? I wouldn't mind the option you suggest though, I don't see the reason to ever turn it off by pressing it again, so it gets my vote..

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Originally Posted by Valence

But... how is this actually happening? Sprint is literally on the GCD, you have a full GCD before being able to use it again? I wouldn't mind the option you suggest though, I don't see the reason to ever turn it off by pressing it again, so it gets my vote..

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Could be a skill issue on my part, honestly, combined with a general frustration of buttons not doing anything and reflexively jabbing at them repeatedly.

I've been wishing lately that the icon would change when you've used it so you could know if you're turning sprint on or off. Yeah, it's a skill issue, but it would be nice qol.

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Originally Posted by DolphinsFan

I've been wishing lately that the icon would change when you've used it so you could know if you're turning sprint on or off. Yeah, it's a skill issue, but it would be nice qol.

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Yeah that'd work too, like a tank stance.

Always felt sprint was kind of awkward in the current incarnation of PvP. There's almost no reason you'd want it off if you could help it, so why not have it automatically activate after a set period of inaction?

The only reason I can think of is if they're actually trying to take the action economy in mind, where an ogcd weave slot spent activating sprint is one not spent casting recuperate or an offensive action. I highly doubt they're thinking things through that far though.

I'd much rather it were simply the baseline or removed entirely. And then we could have an actual sprint with a meaningful cooldown that's powerful enough to distinguish itself from baseline movement speed.

More like remove sprint if you're under attack.

Just explain why you're able to run way while you're getting hit? if you get caught out position then be punished by it.

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Originally Posted by Valence

But... how is this actually happening? Sprint is literally on the GCD, you have a full GCD before being able to use it again? I wouldn't mind the option you suggest though, I don't see the reason to ever turn it off by pressing it again, so it gets my vote..

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1. Press Sprint to activate sprint
2. Press action to use action>>>action gets interrupted by range, wall, stun, lag, etc.>>>Sprint doesn't get dispelled
3. Press Sprint to reactivate Sprint
4. Sprint deactivates because it wasn't dispelled

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Originally Posted by AnnRam

More like remove sprint if you're under attack.

Just explain why you're able to run way while you're getting hit? if you get caught out position then be punished by it.

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Because I already weave sprint in as I heal while trying to escape the onslaught of ranged attacks. Unless you mean like a debuff sort of like when you get shot off your mount?

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Originally Posted by AnnRam

Just explain why you're able to run way while you're getting hit?

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For the same reason that you have no chance of dealing enough damage to kill your opponent without using a LB? Sprint and guard give casual players the feeling that they are not complete bad. And in general, giving all classes the same defensive tools makes it much easier to balance them. The developer took the simplest and laziest route.

You want to retreat by just striding happily while being blasted by everyone without being able to widen the range? That sounds... interesting to say the least.

Agree, one of the very few QoL things I wish they'd tweak. When you're running for your life and need sprint on, it can be awkward to tell if it's queued to activate, or not queued to activate, so you hit it again and mistakenly turn it off instead of on...

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Originally Posted by killerVanilla

Agree, one of the very few QoL things I wish they'd tweak. When you're running for your life and need sprint on, it can be awkward to tell if it's queued to activate, or not queued to activate, so you hit it again and mistakenly turn it off instead of on...

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Yep, you need to weave it in between skills, like spamming recuperate and purify, or other mitigation selfheal skills that come off cooldown, if you get cc or lag happens, you can't tell if its active or not or if it will still activate. The idea that it displays as a different color or icon is good I think.
The idea that sprint is always usable in any situation, has no cooldown, no resource consumption - is not good on the other hand. But what can you do when TP is gone and MP only serves to selfheal you, while most other resource management is almost nonexistent now. It is nice for frontline I guess, so they have to keep it in CC too.