Originally posted by Faceplant8:

That brings up another question that maybe someone can answer. Has anyone analyzed the tradeoff between using stamina to glide father and using stamina to swim? My assumption is that if you "run" while gliding over water that it uses less stamina than if you had to swim the extra distance, but I don't know that for sure. Of course, it depends on skill level, but I wonder if there's a rule-of-thumb.

depends on your swim level. Since most people will have it hardly leveled, then yeah, the cape uses less stamina.