You have to be on the ground and that is the only requirement.
Step 1 : Block (hold g)
Step 2 : Press Ctrl
Step 3 : You’re moving.
You can press it again to walk/run. It does consume quite a bit of stamina, and I was wondering whether anyone knew if this was a bug?
Haven’t tried it but seems like a bug otherwise it would have just been programmed so the player can move with the shield on default for the sake of convience rather than them having to retoggle sprinting. It’s probably also consuming quite a bit of stamina because it’s combining shield and sprint consumption.
Wait is this a thing ? its 100% a bug
Its a bug, I just tried it
can you jump with this bug though?
You can’t jump with the bug, no.
It shouldn’t be a bug if you ask me.
Floating and being stuck in place while blocking looks goofy as heck when you’re too low level to even use the hover spell, or when you’re blocking with say, a sword in your hand.
It’s entirely possible to approach somebody slowly in a blocking stance with your sword.
At the moment there isn’t a problem with it, but in the future with a higher max level and therefore more stamina, there might be more problems. Imagine someone just blocking everything and never running out of stamina, they could also run…
To add on, it’d make pvp cancerous. Everyone would just block and run till they regen all the way…
I never said you could sprint while blocking lol wtf.
I said
You won’t have to worry about people blocking everything and running, as starting to block takes stamina and blocking attacks also consumes stamina, so if they constantly sprint and block they will have no time to regenerate their stamina, and they won’t have enough stamina to keep blocking, letting you catch up and start beating on them.
I’d also imagine certain ultimate arts, heavy attacks, and grabs will break blocks.
I also don’t see how dropping like a rock when you block without a flight or hover spell activated would help people run.
You said the problem above shouldn’t be a bug. It should be in the game. Apart of the bug is being able to run. Please try and elaborate more. If they do make it a mechanic it should take more stamina to do as you level up and get more stamina. Not saying it’s a bad idea, just saying it should be changed if it remains in the game.
I wasn’t talking specifically about how the bug operates, I explained how it would function as an intended feature.
Though, both sprinting and blocking at the same time still would cause you to run out way quicker and screw you over because holding block consumes stamina. 
You also can’t high jump or wall climb while blocking, so if you encounter a cliff face you’re kinda boned with that strategy!
When blocking you take less damage. When in combat you still regen rather fast so the fact you take a fourth of the original damage means you’ll most likely be able to regen faster than they can damage you. This would make pvp cancer for obvious reasons.
Yes you may lose stamina by both sprinting and blocking at the same time extremely fast, but as I pointed out earlier, at higher levels your stamina will be much higher. In no way am I saying that it shouldn’t be a mechanic in the game. I’m just saying stamina should deplete faster as you get more of it. At least when it comes to blocking. Kind of like magic blasts and explosions require more magic energy as it gets stronger. Just like how magic Q tier’s worked in Arcane.
I don’t want to argue about anything because that’d be rather dumb. We both have our opinions and in the end it’s not up to us what happens.
Realized I wasn’t replying to you just now, sorry. I’m new to the forums lol. Read everything I sent if you haven’t already. I’d like to hear what you think.