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

[Penthea]

I just had a lovely experience of a tank sprinting off while I was typing and he pulled an enormous amount. Even with sprint I had no hope of catching up until he stopped but by then he had less than 20% hp. When we wipe all I get told was "you panicked" "use sprint" and "I had Living Dead on, you had plenty of time to heal".

This is far from the first time I have seen this happen as a healer or as a dps watching this happen to another healer.

Sprint used to be my panic button for "oh s*** the tank has ran off ahead without waiting for anyone" but now that they can also sprint, I got nothing.

I can heal chain pulling tanks no problem provided I'm actually in range to heal them. Unfortunately many tanks tunnel while they pull and don't consider that healing has a limited range. Many also seem unaware of their hp, and pull additional packs when they have less than 30% hp.

Honestly this is very much making me lose my taste for duty roulette. I pugged no problem throughout HW but the change to sprint in SB is seriously making me consider refusing to heal any dungeons without a tank from my fc.

In HW I very rarely saw healer in need for duty roulette, now I see it so often in SB. I'm sure in a lot of cases sprinting tanks have something to do with it.

I know nothing is going to change, but hell I'll vent here and maybe some other healers will too and we'll all feel a bit better.

EDIT:To those telling me to sprint....read the post. I did sprint.

I even managed to type while auto sprinting to ask the tank to stay in range but he made no effort to. He either didn't see what I said or chose to ignore it.