Balence Issue: Sprint should not take TP

[Hachiko]

That's kinda the point, Sprint is supposed to be your {|Run Away!|} skill. If a melee uses it, they lose dps capability for a bit, if a bard uses, same thing. If a mage uses it, they are running, so not doing any substantial dps anyway.


Either way, melee have gap closers and gap creators, which mages don't get. It's only fair that mages have access to something similar, and sprint was just there.

If a Melee uses it they lose their ability to do any real dps for the foreseeable future. They will be able to use 1-2 weapon skills every 7.5 seconds on average. So not only can they do no damage while sprinting, but their damage is incredibly nerfed after the spriting.

And melee don't generally have gap closers and gap creators. PLD and WAR have neither, and only have a non-spammable low damage ranged attack. Monk has a gap closer on a 1.5 minute cooldown, and DRG has 2 gap closers on a 90 and 180 second cooldown. Sprint has a 30 second recast.

Admittedly, SE could add a bunch of PvP gap closers / gap creators in the game, but that's speculative.

Aside from that, casters all sorts of things they can do while moving:

Scathe
Aero
Regen
Bio
Ruin II
Miasma II

And that's just the spammable, no cooldown skills. There are a variety of other things that will be castable while on the move for casters, and more importantly all of the dot damage from casters will continue ticking, and the pet damage will still be going out too unless it gets killed.

Also, which melee classes have heavy right now? I don't think any of them do.