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

[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.

[Estguard]

Right click the buff. Poof. Gone.

[Arohk]

Mounts in cities would have been better :3

[Arohk]

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.

because the PvP sprint is a different ability than your normal sprint, same as the island sprint, they would have to make a new Sprint just for Towns.

[MsMisato]

because the PvP sprint is a different ability than your normal sprint, same as the island sprint, they would have to make a new Sprint just for Towns.

they essentially did that with sprint to jog...

[Wasselin]

If they adjusted the running animation would that fix your complaint?

[mornsong]

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

Simplest solution would be to replace your sprint bind with the following macro:

/ac "sprint"
/ac "sprint"
/ac "sprint"
/ac "sprint"
/ac "sprint"
/ac "sprint"
/ac "sprint"
/ac "sprint"
/ac "sprint"
/ac "sprint"
/ac "sprint"
/ac "sprint" <wait.11>
/statusoff "jog"<wait.10>
/statusoff "jog"
/micon "sprint"

and it will automatically disable the jog effect as soon as it applies (technically after a second but). The two statusoffs are to hit jog in cases where sprint's duration was 10 seconds (i.e. you pressed it in combat then left combat before the check for jog), and the line spam is because macros run one line per frame so multiple lines of the ability loosely approximates queueing sprint in cases where you press the macro while you're in an animation lock or something.

[Nadda]

Mounts in cities would have been better :3

At least for the bigger ones it be nice. I know that the main cities (Gridania, Limsa, Ul'dah) were split off due to at the time they were too big and too detailed for peoples computers.... but seeing how big cities are now it be nice if those cities were all connected again. (At least Gridania)

But for Tuiyolal and Solution 9 it be really nice to mount up.

*ALSO I stated this already. You can click the Jog buff to deactivate it.

[Aramyl]

I could not imagine being this soft lol. Its a weird addition. But its nice for jobs that arent MCH, DNC, and BRD so we have access to stuff like Peleton when we are running from location to location in cities. If you really wanna quit the game over it then do it. Uninstall, cancel your sub. You wont though. Youre just complaining over a nothing burger. If you dont like the animation make a macro to cancel the job status like someone posted above. Its not that hard lol.

[VictorSpoils]

The jog speed is the same as Peloton. This was an elaborate attempt at rendering the latter fully obsolete, if it wasn't already, which is not so terrible considering how grating the animation and sound effect are. And as useful as it might be getting to the next undertuned alliance raid boss 5% faster just to stand there and wait for stragglers anyway, it could possibly be replaced with another role action.