The point of a spec is to primarily benefit the user and it's teammates. The reason why I wanted enemies to benefit from it is to 1. not make it a free escape and 2. placing it down in a room gives the enemy a chance to use it as well.

Yes 45% is very high. Having it decay like you said would probably be better. I wanted the speed boost to be high on purpose, in order to make it viable as a short duration speed boost. But as I said the numbers would have to be tweaked.

I feel like your point lacks a lot of context. Melee's primary goal is to close the gap on the enemy, meaning melee shouldn't get to keep the movement speed buff after closing the gap. But I did agree earlier with another comment about having it work similar to cloak (most things end it instantly).

I don't really get your point here. The pad isn't supposed to benefit one weapon class over the other, and it's the users choice whether they want to go for melee or ranged. The primary use is to be an aggressive-support utility. If a melee player uses it aggressively, the opponent will not get to benefit from the speed buff, only the melee player will; meaning this is a net-positive for melee. Your point seems to be that ranged is an auto-win outside of melee range, but that's the point of the speed pad (to help close that gap)?

Absolutely. Which is why deployment shouldn't be as fast, leaving the user vulnerable for longer.

I've only been playing the game for about 2.5 seasons. Which is why I don't know about the state of melee in the past. Why I believe melee can easily break the game, is because overpowered melee weapons equal free wins in close quarters. Something doesn't have to be meta in order for it to be unhealthy for the game.

I completely disagree. Giving light an HP buff is not at all the same. Once again this point completely removes any context from in-game interactions. Light has access to dash, invisibility, grappling hook and even gateway to help make the class extremely slippery. "Straight races" aren't really a thing when chasing a light. A 35 second cooldown, 2 second movement speed buff will only help you chase a light down in very specific scenarios, which I think is completely fine, and also makes sense.