"Jog" is the worst addition to the game - rant

[Seabreeze]

So, this will be a rant about the new passive effect called "Jog" introduced in 7.2.

Jog genuinely makes me want to stop playing. I know very well that that sounds strange and stupid, fully aware, but i just HATE the sped up running-animation, and to have that "forced" upon me actively makes the game worse. When playing a physical ranged damage dealer I already hated having to press Peloton after every pack in a dungeon, and now having to to that on every single job in the game..? No thanks.

Now i have to choose between always having my character run like a cartoon character, or be punished for not doing that... I remember when they added special animations for Sprinting with your weapon equipped and I was SO hyped about it. Now, I want to remove Sprint from my bars entirely - though I can already hear people in dungeons yelling at me for not using Jog. Ugh...

Ninja is my favourite job in the game, but I always hated how their slightly increased movement speed made my character run. But I still loved the job so I ignored it. Now ALL jobs have an EVEN WORSE sped up animation..! Why..!?

Now, I understand that most people probably love the introduction of Jog, but personally I've never had an issue with the normal running speed for the past 11 years of playing, and I've no idea why they felt the need to change that. We've got Sprint, Teleport, Aetherytes, increased Sprint duration in cities, Peloton, and this patch even gave us mounting up while running. WHY on earth do we need Jog too?

Please, at least give me an option to toggle it off permanently...

Again, I know it's a stupid thing to be mad about, but I genuinely feel like it makes my gameplay experience worse, as weird as that may sound.

Okay, rant over...

What do you think? Do you love Jog, do you HATE it like I do? Or do you not care at all?

Thanks for reading

[HawkeScream]

I'm not a fan either. If I wanted to jog I would use peloton. It's irritating to have to do it, but you can click on the jog icon to get rid of the status and return to the normal walking state.

edit: getting a lot more used to it

[Exmo]

You control the buttons you press.

[Auro_Seldaris]

You control the buttons you press.

What is that supposed to mean? Jog is automatically applied to your character when Sprint drops off. Are you seriously trying to tell people "bro, just don't click sprint bro"?

[Underscore]

What is that supposed to mean? Jog is automatically applied to your character when Sprint drops off. Are you seriously trying to tell people "bro, just don't click sprint bro"?

You can remove jog from yourself if you don't want it.

[Fynlar]

This is such a nothingburger of a rant. Imagine complaining about extra optional convenience. (And yeah, it is optional -- I have seen plenty of people in random dungeons who *never* use Sprint throughout the entire dungeon; even if it would have been helpful in some way other than "get place faster brrrrr"; even if they are tanks and Sprint would have helped them take a lot less damage mid-pull. I've not *once* ever seen anyone in those dungeons give them any crap about never using Sprint. It's to the point where I suspect many players don't have it on their hotbars or even know it exists.)

If you at least came at this from the perspective of a phys ranged lamenting about how Peloton is now effectively worthless, then I would have at least understood that to some degree.

I guess you're also the sort to never make use of slidecasting on a caster class because of how "silly" it looks, too?

What is that supposed to mean? Jog is automatically applied to your character when Sprint drops off. Are you seriously trying to tell people "bro, just don't click sprint bro"?

Yes, that's exactly what we are saying. If you don't like running faster (for SOME reason), why would you be using Sprint in the first place?

[Neoyoshi]

You control the buttons you press.

Came here for this comment to set up camp.

[Jeeqbit]

To be honest, a lot of people do not Sprint in dungeons when I tank them. It's just the tank that needs to do it. Everyone else will catch up by the time you've "settled" with the mobs, plus most jobs have other methods to catch up such as gap closers, Elusive Jump, Shukuchi, Smudge, Aetherial Manipulation, Ifrit Dash, etc.

[xbahax92]

No I dont hate it. It took them years to change their minds on this.

However, I still question why we cannot toggle sprint like in PVP, but that will never get answered.
Dev's have a difficult perspective on random things.

[Taranok]

No I dont hate it. It took them years to change their minds on this.

However, I still question why we cannot toggle sprint like in PVP, but that will never get answered.
Dev's have a difficult perspective on random things.

Probably because there's some weird, obscure engine limitation in the client that would make it difficult to be a buff in combat but a toggle out of combat. Which if that's the case, the devs love bar bloat, they can easily make a second button as a toggle to be used out of combat.