There are for certain people who will really like the movement buff but in terms of actual interesting design ideas its still dead last as always. The combat speed buff will probably see some sweaty people adopt it purely for that. Extra speed helps with a lot of dance-y fights.
>healers are basically able to slidecast DPS faster
Honestly. Don't PUG if you want a slow run. Form a group if you want to extend the time in the run that bad. Most people just do it for the tombstones anyway and the contents so flipping easy now all the challenge is long gone. You're not missing anything.
But there's really no mechanic currently in the game where you need a double sprint. I'm sure it'll be handy, but will it make up for how janky the job is overall? I really doubt it.
I mean you don't "need" much of anything, you arguably barely need GCD heals in general depending on the fight tuning yet WHM has 7 of them. You don't need Mantra or Nature's Minne, but they exist and sometimes they can help in prog or enable some stupid greed strat where you stack as much mitigation and shielding as possible and just full frontal tank avoidable aoes to avoid disconnecting from the boss. A proper greed strat enables damage which is generally always useful and double sprint + mitigation can in-theory enable something depending on the fight's design (I believe e10s was one example I had with my raiding buddies where more general party movement would help). I just don't think a combat movement speed bonus is useless in a game where movement and positioning is literally everything beyond hitting your buttons.
"Newbies never get to experience it."
If he wants to run through it like its 'meant to be' then he'll be just killing more trash and skipping a few less early fights. I agree its not 'great' but I also think he's a whiny little 'tard who has no idea that the 'SKIP, SKIP, SKIP, GO GO GO' mentality was something that has been present in every MMO for a long while and really debuted massively in WoW.
Dude made an old MMO and managed to plant another crop of Memberberries, that doesn't make him impactful, relevant, or automatically right. The ego on this sad sack is incredible.
He wasn’t even the one who popularized it. That game got way more influence when latter TBC came out and WoTLK. He’s not even fully responsible for classic wows creation either.
Given how really, really, REALLY basic all of Vanilla WoW is in terms of design its not a particularly impressive laurel to rest upon your brow. It's not quite 'I made Molten Core' levels of pathetic but its up there. (Unless he did make MC then HAHAHAHAHHHH)
Because he is and he has been doing this for years.
To be fair, the man doesn't have to throw a giant hissy fit just because he chose to take exception to one outdated part of the game that he still very easily could've played out in full and not missed a single story beat, but refused because of his personal perception that he was "being left behind" and would be spoiled somehow. And he didn't have to turn it into a bigger hissy fit just because people told him to stop being retarded.