Your Water Strider will still walk on water… Just now other mounts will have a chance too
It would do no such thing if Blizzard simply exempted Striders EXACTLY THE SAME WAY they do other special mounts, like the Chauffered Mechanohog and swimming mounts.
And for the 1000th time: Once you equip anything else, like the far more useful SPEED or NO-DAZE equipment, then what?
THEN you have to find a level 100 alt with angler rep and take the 10 minute trip(*) out to the angler’s quarter master in MoP to buy ONE replacement and mail it to the alt that needs it back again. Gold cost? trivial. convenience cost, UGLY.
(*) 4 minutes for alliance because of ridiculous portal decisions.
“One free, the rest cheap but really inconvenient to get to, and no stocking up because they’re UNIQUE / carry-one-only items now”
No. This whole garbage thing has been to get people to COMPLETELY GIVE UP up using water walking mounts by bribing us with SPEED and NO-DAZE equipment.
It has nothing to do with over-use of striders, striders being too OP or anything else… it’s about blizzard wanting to kill water walking dead.
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Until I need to install anti-daze equipment. Then none of my mounts will walk on water. Then, later, when I’m in a zone with lots of vertical drops, I’ll need to install slow fall equipment. Still no water walking. Then, later, when I have long distances to travel, I’ll have to install the speed boost equipment. Still no water walking.
The way they’re implementing this is cumbersome and expensive, and will severely limit player choice.
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Word.
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I don’t think blizzard actually intends for us to swap equipment out on demand. I think they specifically want us to pick one and STICK with it.
You as a DK, will probably only ever need safe-fall because you have:
- WW on demand without even having to dismount to get it.
- mount speed already as a DK, and
- full no-daze in blood spec, or likely, lessor no-daze with the “Resounding Protection” azerite trait.
If you were a goblin, you wouldn’t even need slow-fall, you could [rocket jump] near the end of your fall and escape harm. ![:slight_smile:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/slight_smile.png?v=6" ":slight_smile:")
Until 9.0, when those features will likely be removed.
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It is still BS that the devs removed Gust of Wind from Shamans. Pretty easy to predict that they’ll remove Shamans/DK’s water walking abilities in future too.
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I think your path of frost and shaman water walking are safe.
They nerfed goblin gliders in all pve instances around the same time they introduced Demon Hunters with their shorter-range Glide ability. Not that they needed to with their trash-clear progress bar requirement in mythic+ runs… but whatever.
No, if it’s limited by class to a small fraction of the player base it adds “Class Fantasy” so it’s “okay”. Stuff that everyone can use is what’s “bad” and has to be crushed out as far as Blizzard seems concerned.
I hope you’re right, but given Blizzard’s anti-fun stance on just about everything, I am not too optimistic.
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Doesn’t really bring anything into the game? Mount equipment offers other abilities other than water-walking to be used on 700+ mounts in the game which have no abilities. It brings more into the game than a water strider…
Bye
Everything mount equipment is bringing is already in game:
Water Walking potions make every mount walk on water.
Goblin gliders give every one slow fall
Leather barding gives all mounts anti daze.
Pathfinder gives all mounts speed increase.
So what does mount equipment bring to the game again?
Oh that’s right It just brings the excuse to take away the water strider from the people that earned it, so I guess it does bring something to the game.
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I still dont even understand why this is being done, did someone think it was too close to flying so they had to remove it.
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Because it is better than what it is replacing, despite a handful of tantrums.
Elaborate please?
We already had this exchange several days ago. Nothing has changed from what you were told then.
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They tried to kill water walking awhile back, making it so water walkers didn’t work outside of their expansions, but so many people caught on to them that they were forced to revert those changes.
So Blizz bided their time, waited for subs to drop enough that not enough ppl were playing anymore to notice, and THEN killed water walking off. Many still caught on, but not enough to foil their attempt to ruin the Water Strider mount.
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Where you have already been proven wrong by several people that mount equipment is not a better system?
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Opinions are not wrong, dear heart. ![:laughing:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/laughing.png?v=6" ":laughing:")
Try again.
You just say that the Mount Equipment is a better system than what is in game already, but haven’t made an actual post to say why it is a better system.
All you have done is say the mount is ugly. Now, again, elaborate.
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Most likely that will be the case on what Blizzard is going to do. They have already made our professions worthless. They have taken so many abilities away from the classes. They will most likely take the DK’s/Shaman’s ability to walk on water.
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