Anyone Else Find Sprint No Longer Using TP Making Tanks Even Worse?

[Maeka]

Sprinting is not a tank trap, unless paired with people who aren't paying attention whatsoever. It's sanity. You should ALL be using sprint.

Unless, of course, the healer is trying to cast Protect.... because you know, 15% defense is nearly as powerful as a Rampart (last I checked, that's 20%). It + Rampart is a full one-third damage reduction, and to go sprinting off before you even have the buff is insanely stupid, and expecting the healer to stand there casting it AFTER the pull is even more ludicrous because heal spam is usually required to keep the tank alive early in the pull.

The Healer COULD swiftcast it, but as a healer, I loathe doing this because about the time I do, a SC+Raise or SC+Cure 3 or SC+Cure2 would have saved the group from a wipe which costs far more time than waiting for a 3 second cast before mashing the sprint button.......

[Shurrikhan]

Unless, of course, the healer is trying to cast Protect.... because you know, 15% defense is nearly as powerful as a Rampart (last I checked, that's 20%).

Iirc, the % damage reduction caused by the entirety of some 4.5k Defense is still under 20%. Your 15% is then 15% of that, so really more like under 3% damage reduction. But you could always cast it before the ring falls, unless they're sprinting immediately out of the cutscene. This should also occur only once per instance, whereas Sprint should be occurring every 60-100 seconds, with the death of every gather.