Quote Originally Posted by Elamys View Post
[...] but with it not having a TP cost anymore, there needs to be some kind of penalty for it.
...why?

TP was inconsequential for casters and gatherers before. Still is. They had no tradeoff for using sprint before. Why does there need to be one now? Just because melees and ranged DPS can use it in combat as well now? That doesn't make much sense.

Besides, there already "is" a tradeoff: The sprint duration is reduced. Since casters had no use for TP, the TP bar was frequently full, allowing for 20 seconds of sprint in combat. Now it's 10 seconds flat in combat and 20 outside.

The cooldown increase is an arbitrary decision and I think independent from the fact it no longer drains TP. It was unneccessary - Heck, even the PvP sprint only has 45 seconds CD.