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.