Making it an optional passive was a major QoL improvement — no longer wasting a spot on the bar, but players who were happy with their current mount speed are unaffected (or can try it and then respec if desired).
Now I think castable rapids is just used for scroll running and even for speed-running dungeons.
I think their (zos) motivation for changing it to a passive was performance (same for everything else the last few years...): prior to that, players were recasting it every 30s initially then every 8s after it was nerfed.
Now, as mentioned previously, the skill is pretty much useless. And unused.
Please visit my house ingame !
"Death is overrated", Xarc Xãrc -- breton necro - DC - AvA rank50 Xarcus -- imperial DK - DC - AvA rank50 Elnaa - breton NB - DC - AvA rank50 Xärc -- breton NB - DC - AvA rank47 Isilenil - Altmer NB - AD - AvA rank41 Felisja - Bosmer NB - DC - AvA rank39 Xàrc - breton necro - DC - AvA rank28 Xalisja - bosmer necro - DC - AvA rank16 kàli - redguard templar - DC - AvA rank32
- in game since April 2014
- on the forum since December 2014