Sprint: The nerf nobody wanted

[Solarra]

Agreed, this a great change for combat but absolutely terrible outside of it.

Gathering - Sprint is pretty much essential since it can be used in Stealth (which normally slows your walk to a crawl). Sprint + Stealth = almost normal walking pace. If you are gathering at level you need stealth, especially in the new areas where mobs will one-shot you. It's not always a good idea to use the mount between nodes as you'll get aggro if mobs are nearby.

New Players - agree with the point's made earlier, this is really going to slow them down pre-level 20 and probably turn a lot of them off the game.

Cities - Slower movement for everyone.

Swimming - Sprint gives a nice boost to speed, so again slower movement for everyone.

Sightseeing Log - Sprint is needed to make some of the jumps. One minute between tries is going to make this absolutely painful.

It would be nice if we could go back to the old cooldown out of combat.

[kikix12]

Exactly why can't we get sprint how it was, except without the TP cost?! Casters had a "free" sprint for 20sec every 30sec for a long time and it never "broke" the game. Why would it break the game for a tank or non-caster DPS?!

It should had just have its TP cost removed. There was never any need to make any other change.

[Felis]

Exactly why can't we get sprint how it was, except without the TP cost?! Casters had a "free" sprint for 20sec every 30sec for a long time and it never "broke" the game. Why would it break the game for a tank or non-caster DPS?!

Old Sprint cooldown with no TP cost would be a big buff for monks, as an example

[Indefiinable]

Complaints complaints complaints thats all I see lately, I'm glad for the new change as now Tanks and melee can now use the sprint and to be honest if you were meant to be able to sprint constantly the Dev's would have baked the skill into the character, If it was me I'd have removed it because you're all acting like spoilt children lately.

No. What we are acting like is paying customers who are unhappy with the service we are receiving

[Mysticales]

Ok, Put me down for that Sprint changes need to be made OUTSIDE of combat.

Gathering.. yea this charges way too slow.

Cities. We should be allowed to print much more then this, or bring back the hermes sandals again for the city.

[IveraIvalice]

i mentioned it earlier but i really think they just need to leave sprint the way it was when your outside combat. they already know how to limit things inside and outside combat, stoneskin 2 was proof of that.
the changes are still what intended for combat and crafters/gatherers/everyone else just doing normal stuff can have sprint the way it was. win/win

[FoxyAreku]

New Players - agree with the point's made earlier, this is really going to slow them down pre-level 20 and probably turn a lot of them off the game.

You make some good points, but I have to stop you here.

Literally no one is going to realistically stop playing an entire game over a 1 minute cooldown. If they do, then they didn't like the game very much to begin with anyway.

[kikix12]

Old Sprint cooldown with no TP cost would be a big buff for monks, as an example

Sprint in and off itself is good. Whenever playing a caster, there is basically no boss with AoE's that I didn't use sprint against...outside of the early dungeons, that is.

Monks wouldn't really get that much damage out of it. If you're talking about positional attacks, they can already be done with miniscule movement where sprint will be irrelevant. It's all about two factors. The tank and the monks skill. A tank that moves a lot will not let monk use their positional skills well no matter how good they are. In order to keep up with the changes, they would need to stop attacking for a few moments.

Other than that? Monks would get out of AoE a bit later and enter a bit sooner. It would save maybe one second?! We're not talking about large distances here after all. So yeah, sorry. I have no idea why it would be a big thing in PvE.

[Mysticdraggon]

You make some good points, but I have to stop you here.

Literally no one is going to realistically stop playing an entire game over a 1 minute cooldown. If they do, then they didn't like the game very much to begin with anyway.

i dont know, i was pretty close. here i am now, experiencing the same thing all over again with the nerf; specifically within cities and while gathering.

we must consider that there are some new players who will actually quit because of this.

i really dont see a reason why things shouldn't go back to the way they were without the cost of TP. all people who defend the changes are just either giving us encouragement to "deal with it" or telling us how much of a benefit it is to TP users and them alone.

[Gabrielleblanc]

While I agree that 30 seconds should have been the cooldown. It was a much needed change in QoL for melee.