I thought each mount would have an ability of the player’s choice, so you might choose waterwalking for the strider or maybe try something different. This would be the classical RPG approach to a mount equipment system.
But instead, all of your mounts get one consumable ability? Why not do it my way?
Nope. When you apply mount equipment, all your mounts get it. When you decide you want different mount equipment, you have to apply the new one, destroying the old one in the process, and now all your mounts get the new one.
It’s cumbersome, expensive, and limits player choice. Not to mention, for those of us who did the work to get striders, it’s a slap in the face.
It’s a bad change. I predict that it will be pretty much despised, even by players that were excitedly looking forward to it.
As long as they can sell stuff back to you, they’ll continue taking things away.
Skinning might not make much sense, just because you can’t fight on a mount, and you need dead things to skin. You may run across some dead mobs someone else didn’t skin, but that’s not very often that I’ve seen. Not often enough, anyway, but i wouldn’t be against it at all.
Lol where have you been?
What they did is force me to have ALL my mounts walk on water. I only use my Water Strider to cross large bodies of water. Only time I use it. It was always MY option to use it for the purpose it was made. Now Blizz introduces an item that forces me to make all my mounts walk on water. I do not want them all to be water walkers. The option for me to choose has been taken away from me and I do not appreciate it!
I suspect the motivation behind mount equipment is to create a continual need for players to engage in micro-transactions, (spending gold for each change of equipment,) so players will get used to continually needing extra gold and buying tokens so we can still get around Blizzard’s new obstacle courses in a reasonable amount of time.
It’s Blizzard’s current modus operandi. Players put in the regular hours to up their MAUs, WAUs and DAUs, or payers continually pour extra dollars into the system.
This is what classes these days as a “Meaningful Choice”.
Ohh in that case…I have a bridge for sale.
No, it isn’t.
Exactly. Expect to be ridiculed for saying so though.
When they gave us all flightpaths then took them away, I said watch for flightpath bundles in the shop. I was only wrong on the excecution. Available for gold from vendor. If you don’t have enough gold, or spend all your gold on such things, you’ll be “encouraged” to buy tokens.
Just make the game fun, and people will happily play it and spend money!
The more blizzard is investing into making the world larger the less people seem to inhabit their world.
I don’t like feeling like I’m punished for wanting to keep what I had.
That’s the part people either don’t understand or just simply choose to ignore. There’s a reason so many complain about what’s happening with the Strider & mount equipment isn’t the issue even though many think that’s what the people advocating to keep the strider the way it is think.
I have 4 mounts on my action bars, ground mount I use in non flying zones, flying mount, strider, and transmog yak/vendor. since now im losing option for strider, and its waste of slot to make equipment slot for water when theres so many other even more useful equipments like daze etc especially with solid blobs of mobs you have to pass through, I feel like im losing my strider option/ The water strider should have its equipment disabled and let it be used for water walking, cause you can make potions, or heck just roll a blood dk, no daze/ water walking/ 20% speed, all I need is save from falls equipment and he would be set.