I for one am against the new change. reaching further when running faster or having your leap shorter while dragging your feet with cripple & friends felt natural and was part of the boon/condi game.
With leaps being movement speed independent, many professions will feel half immune to movement impeding, while others will feel much less rewarded with their speed buffs. After all that speed does not come for free, there’s always a price you had to pay for having that swiftness, or passive 25% movement speed.
Depending on profession this may be make or break, but i feel that player choices and skill (crippling at right time) are being flushed down the toilet, because now leaps are always same no matter what you did or had done to you.
While we’re there I’m not a happy camper with dodge roll being immune to movement speed changes either. An enemy runs to my point which i’m capping. I take proactive approach and cripple him, so i can buy precious few seconds on point. Well nvm, he dodge rolled in here, my chill/cripple couldn’t help here. yes i know immobilize would stop that, but point is the weaker condies (chill & criplle) should have some effect too.