8.2 Mount Equipment and Water Strider

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Tiny-nitpick. “Unique Equip” is superfluous because there’s only one slot. The tooltext photo you posted actually said “unique”, which as you’re saying, means a player may only own one.

I would -hope- that the code allows you to equip it (which makes it ‘gone from inventory’ effectively), and allows you to buy a spare… because if not you’ll have to destroy the equipped one to buy spares one at a time to mail to your alts, and that would just be beyond stupid.

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you can have one equipped and one in your bag. However, you will have to buy them one at a time to send to alts. I probably would only want to go out there on one toon and have that toon send them off to other toons. If you don’t have a portable mailbox you’ll need to fly up to the mail box multiple times in order to mail them off. In my case, it would be 36 times : /

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Hey, I thought you already get used to it. (I don’t)

A flying mount cannot fly until you fulfill the pathfinder achievement. Its just the same stupid concept :rofl:.

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More nanny state garbage. “Oooo ooo ! They might buy too many and not realize it until mailing them out… better make them do it one by one, because giving a full refund for a BoA purchase is against policy!! They’ll be so glad we made it so very inconvenient!”

Stupid spiteful stuff like this is making me not even want to try najzatar and mechagon anymore.

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To my knowledge, the water strider comes with the water walking by default, so you can probably add another affect onto it + the default water walking.

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After 8.2 that default will no longer exist.
Unless blizzard changes their mind.

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Yeah, and delaying flying is a stupid concept, and removing the Water Striders water walking passive for mount equipments is a stupid concept.

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Nope, it won’t then.

If that was the case, you’d not see all these angry threads about it.

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Hey blizzard, hire me!

I can be a sadist for no reason too! Here check this idea:

From now on, players need at least 2 kinds of water walking potions, equipment, special mounts… Because fresh-water water-walking won’t work on salt water and vice versa!

Give alchemists and engineers recipes for tossable bombs that cause huge oil slicks rendering water temporarily unstride-able. And other potions/bombs that spread out absorb the salt in water to screw with other people.

Add lava walking and deployable icers to make it safe to walk on for 30 seconds… Or ice booties.

So many completely annoying ideas just waiting to drive players away in frustration…

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Every recent idea has been annoying to drive customers away.

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Once the mount equipment goes live, a lot of players are going to be really ticked off by the way it’s implemented. It’s amazing how many people still think it’s a good idea, and that it will give them more choice.

I’m going to hate being the guy that says “I told ya so,” but I will be.

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Source? I can’t find any.

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Well, on the bright side, I do see it as giving players more choice, and that is allowing them to pick more from which mounts they would like to use to cut across the water.

But sadly, there is more that mount equipment is removing than most seem to think. And sadly, it isn’t something I want to see, since so much have been taken away from this game.

But hey, I main a Shaman, so screw these mount equipments, we got our choice here, and best thing is, we don’t need mounts to walk across the water too. :smiley:

But the point still stands, they should’ve left the water strider alone. It may not be on of the prettiest mounts, but it is one of my favourite mounts.

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I agree with you. Removing what makes mounts unique is a sad thing to see. Blizzard says that removing the ability from the strider is due to it being “overpowered”, and that is a lame excuse.

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Which they’re fixing by making it so all mounts can water walk AND use barding to prevent no-daze at the same time.

“So OP. Must… turn around three times and stand on one foot and pretend like anything we do is for the reasons we say even though obviously we’re just rolling dice to see what randomly gets implemented at this point”

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All the thought process put into Mount equipment will be useless when Pathfinder 2 is unlocked.

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Which is not fixing, because when Mount Equipments come out with patch 8.2, it is either Water Walking or Anti-Dazed. Not both.

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barding as in the consumable.

WW equipment + barding consumable.
Barding equipment + water walking consumable.

BOTH of which are more “Over Powered” than "Water striders exempted from mount equipment the way sky golems are.

So whatever their logic is for shooting water striders in the feet is… it has nothing to do with them being ‘overpowered’, that’s just straight up rubbish. :frowning:

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Yeah, the excuse is really kind of lame :worried:
But it is effective as some people bought it – of course those were probably people who hated the strider because they didn’t want to do the work to get it, and they want the same privileges or to have it removed if they can’t have it. :woman_shrugging:

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So then by your logic, Water Striders are not overpowered, but yet, deserve to be a nerf?