1 and 1/2 years later - Mount Equipment

[Llars-winterhoof (Llars)]

I feel pretty much like I did when it first came out.
Resentful in that I was robbed of my water-walking mount, the one I EARNED specifically because it had the ability to water-walk.
I’ve never used Mount equipment. Maybe I’ll use it after my Water-Strider regains it unique ability.

[Miezhu-wyrmrest-accord]

It was an excuse to nerf the water strider and nothing more. The arguments Blizzard made for the water strider apparently didn’t matter for mounting in the maw.

They’re such two faced scumbags.

[Gorthraw-turalyon (Gorthraw)]

I put in the “No Daze” one and haven’t changed it since. I can fly in all previous content so the water walking isn’t necessary. The anti-dazing upgrade has been great for skipping mobs and taking shortcuts in the world.

[Orthis-stormrage]

@Mokrawr-area-52

So it’s been about 1 and 1/2 years since mount equipment was introduced, give or take.

Did you set it and forget it?
Did you just forget it?
Did Blizzard forget about it?
Does anyone find it “better” than the few unique mounts we had prior?
Why are herbalists still doomed to use Sky Golems(or the pallete swap) that sway wildly while flying?

I only really remember it’s a thing when a random alt starts getting dazed and needs barding.

So, how do you folks feel about it?

I put an anti-daze barding on my mount equipment and never looked back.

[Rivanon-wyrmrest-accord]

Honestly I always keep a Strider in fifth pet slot for that and I never really felt it was that big an issue, I get not everyone rolls hunters but heh

[Kwashiorkor-ravenholdt]

I haven’t seen that poor water strider in a very long time. It’s collecting dust in the mount listing along with everything else. I used to have the strider as its own hotkey for water. I don’t feel like I’m even spending that much time near water anyways.

[Khronys-aerie-peak]

I forgot about it, honestly it’s typical Blizz to do something that they literally ignore.

@Rhielle-sentinels

Thanks, Blizz.

welcome back rhielle, missed ya on the forums.

[Walburgha-aerie-peak (Walburgha)]

I am an herbalist who has a zillion mounts… I can’t use and herb efficiently on my way to where I’m going.

I had really hoped they’d have done more with the system than they did. It’s half-done… or less.

[Audrena-dathremar (Audrena)]

@Mokrawr-area-52

Did Blizzard forget about it?

No, it achieved their design goal of removing water walking from the water walking mount by stealth.

Next up, the restriction of water walking mount equipment so that it “has no effect above level 60”.

Ding! Water walking removed, as they’ve wanted to do for years.

And in the back corner of the dev kitchen, a lonely developer cries into his cocoa and mutters to himself, “if only we’d thought of this when we tried to remove flying!”

@Thequixote-staghelm

It solved the problem of the game looking ridiculous because everyone was riding the same water walking bug

Solved it by letting a DINOSAUR walk on water. Or a yak. Lucky they patched out the ridiculous, hey?

@Sheepmenoob-tichondrius

Which was totally weird, because only about 30% of accounts even had it. But the people making that demonstrably false claim made it over and over again. “It bothers my eyes that I see people using the mount of their choice. Take away that option.”

I strongly suspect that was yet another occasion - just like the sudden “flying is something that Blizzard regrets ever adding to the game” threads from some years ago - when the forums were “seeded” with posts to try to push an agenda, to give Blizzard a reason to “fix” something that was never broken.

[Timbaeslice-frostmourne]

I love how they introduced mount equipment and literally literally the next expansion we get the maw mount which is the only mount that can be used in the maw.

Nice Blizzard huge brains great job.

[Akadruid-barthilas]

The mount daze equipment is more useful than the water walking no matter what expansion you play. Pointless even to have any equipment in the old world once you can get flying, but the anti daze is best in SL given the lack of water.

[Argorwal-ysera (Argorwal)]

@Sheepmenoob-tichondrius

@Thequixote-staghelm

It solved the problem of the game looking ridiculous because everyone was riding the same water walking bug in and island expansion that didn’t get flight for over a year.

That was the main complaint: “I don’t like seeing 100% of players on that mount on all times! Remove it from the game, Blizzard!”

Which was totally weird, because only about 30% of accounts even had it. But the people making that demonstrably false claim made it over and over again. “It bothers my eyes that I see people using the mount of their choice. Take away that option.”

Wait, are you suggesting that people post crap on the forums that aren’t real issues and Blizzard is stupid to listen them?

[Avolea-proudmoore]

i set it to a parachute for my flyers, and water walking for my lowbies.

[Kholin-drakthul (Kholin)]

I play a shaman and a DK now because they come with built in water walking. I unlock flying with them first. After that water walking isn’t important.

So I guess I’ve worked around it. (The water strider thing.)

Edit - Also when that came out, (water strider nerf) I played a couple of months and sat out until the end of the expansion. By then the catch up was in place. So getting flying wasn’t too bad.

[Taivora-dark-iron]

I still think about how stupid it was that they killed the water strider mount. I still hate that they did it. And I’m still seriously disappointed that they implemented this new mount equipment feature so poorly when it could have been a thousand times better. There were so many great suggestions and ideas on the forums, but nope! I’m tired of good ideas with crap implementation.

As for the equipment type, I set it to water walking and forget it. I can’t use it on my main, this druid, anyway, because I use travel form, so like who cares…

[Mokon-zuljin]

I generally forget it happened.

It’s in the bin with other things that Bliz thought they wanted, but actually didn’t.

[Nocturne-arygos]

They could have given the water walking equipment AND Let people who did the rep for the mount keep a water walking mount. They didn’t have to remove the skill from our cool bug in order for everyone to have access to the mount equipment.

[Crapula-black-dragonflight (Crapula)]

I set every character to water walking when the mount equipment came out and forgot about it. It was useful in BFA but not at all in Shadowlands. So when I start leveling again I switch them to the anti-dismount and then forget about it again.

[Mokrawr-area-52 (Mokrawr)]

A lot of the replies here made me realize just how little water we have in Shadowlands.
On this character I use a macro to cast it when I mount, but we hardly have any water to deal with.
I think the only time I wish I could walk on water that I can’t is near Plaguefall in the toxic death water.

[Zaria-moon-guard (Zaria)]

I remember being an advocate for the idea because I like layers of customization.

And then they only made four of them. And 1 mount equipment applies to all mounts. It’s not too exciting.

What IS exciting is, as a Prot Paladin, I can have basically all the useful ones at the same time. Crusader Aura doesn’t stack with the Hoofplates, the Barding is useless since I’m immune to daze, so I use the Water Walking buff.