Sprint Ability

[Hyrist]

First of all, both of you are forgetting something. And that is, perhaps there will be an area in the game where you can't use your mount? If so, Sprint enters the discussion.

And when discussing a possible passive speed ability, there's no reason it couldn't only affect run speed and not mount speed, or vice versa.

As for the difficult area point, that is a good point. Although, if we are considering a passive bonus, what difference does it make if you press a button before you go through a difficult spot or if you just start running without pressing a button? Surely the fewer button presses the better for something so simple as running?

Also, if you haven't ever used an ability like this you may think you will never use it, but you will. You so will.

Try not to talk down to me. I've played both Aion and SWtOR, your primary examples. I know about the use of certain abilities and I thought they were belittled by the fact that a lot of them were toggles.

As far as the UI being customizable, that was already said. The key maps are bind-able. The windows are customizable. These were things established months ago before videos even started. A delay in the implementation on keybinds is about as far as you'll get as far as assumptions to the negative on this.

Areas in which chocobo's are not allowed? They're irrelevant. You're talking mostly instanced areas and arenas in which case my example holds: They will be used as a method of evasion and brief boosts in speed, NOT as your primary speed runs are abolished anyways, makes the issue moot to all but the elitist of the elite. It's a toy for the over-anxious and you're complaining about it like it should be a 24/7 mount-less speed boost. If that is the case I want it removed entirely as that's not the purpose for this skill.

Anyways, I've lost my patience for this conversation. It's a petty complaint. There are alternative means of speed travel, and bereft those, you don't need to be using sprint 24/7. As I said before, will people? Absolutely. But they don't need to be encouraged to, or catered to in this case.

Your complaint is like saying players should be allowed flight because jumping is an inefficient means of getting airborne.

[Radacci]

I haven't been able to experience alpha, but I have played SWTOR, so if the sprint abilities are identical, then here's my take.

In my experience, I have yet to find a scenario when I don't have Sprint activated in SWTOR. Iirc, the effect of Sprint turns off automatically when in battle, then reactivates after battle. So, my question is, why does it exist? Why not just have an overall passive run speed always active when not in battle? This could apply to both ARR and SWTOR.

My thought would be to remove the ability and just tack on the effect to your normal run speed when in passive mode and not being aggro'd. Is there ever a reason to not use Sprint when traveling short distances or in areas where a mount is inaccessible?

if passive speed was that fast, mounts wouldnt be so useful. and if they speed up mounts, you'd lag. unless you live close to server.

[elreed]

well from what i read in others dev posts, we'll have 3 action bars visible if we want, so i think that would help a lot

[AlexNiculaie]

As others have pointed out, just because it's in the Action Bar does not make it a "combat action." Food, medicines, emotes, mounts, teleport, etc. All are able to be equipped. As for depriving you of precious slots, notice that the bar has 2 extra slots from what we had in 1.0. That's 6 extra slots (assuming that makes it through to release, or is all the extra slots we are given).

This is simple not a serious issue.

[Hyrist]

Also note that you can probably customize some of your keybinds to boot, so this entire issue is moot.

[Hyrist]

The more I read of this, the more I feel as if you've forgotten the concept of sprinting verses perhaps, summoning a mount.

This particular ability is not meant as a constant speed boost you are to spam at every single opportunity, though many will likely attempt to do so. It is a simple temporary increase in speed to travel smaller distances quicker. For instance, when you're attempting to flee or sprint through a dangerous area you cannot traverse via mount.

Most of your complaints are founded on the concept that all you will do while traveling is press this button continually, without alternative, when there are, in fact, alternatives available.

[BlaiseLallaise]

if passive speed was that fast, mounts wouldnt be so useful. and if they speed up mounts, you'd lag. unless you live close to server.

How much is the speed boost anyhow? I wouldn't expect anything more than 25% from it once mounts return. And regardless of how much faster mounts are, as long as they are faster, they will be more useful. When you can summon your own chocobo, do you ever feel the need to use a rental? Additionally, there are places where mounts cannot be used, and even a little boost would be useful.

The more I read of this, the more I feel as if you've forgotten the concept of sprinting verses perhaps, summoning a mount.

This particular ability is not meant as a constant speed boost you are to spam at every single opportunity, though many will likely attempt to do so. It is a simple temporary increase in speed to travel smaller distances quicker. For instance, when you're attempting to flee or sprint through a dangerous area you cannot traverse via mount.

Most of your complaints are founded on the concept that all you will do while traveling is press this button continually, without alternative, when there are, in fact, alternatives available.

Perhaps you are right; I have yet to read anything stating the intent behind the Sprint ability. But even so, it is human nature to want to get from point A to point B in as little time as possible, so once again, you are correct; some people will spam it through town if it gets them where they are going 10 seconds faster.

[Kiroh]

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[Hyrist]

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[Shougun]

The TP consumption is to make running out of fights less probable as the fight goes on. My opinion on it at least - since we know it consumes all tp. How much tp consumed may have something to do with it in the end as well, I think maybe once we can test it- it will make more sense.

Also I can only assume you can bind your own hotkeys to the bar. So if whatever spot it is at isnt cutting it for you, then you can change it. I hope there is some / can be some addon that can make double tap hotkeys and other keypress context related hotkeys .. Would like double tap W W or something to get my running going and remove the sprint from the bar all together.