Blizzard on mount equipment: *Running wild, Druid Travel Forms will not benefit*

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Ah my mistake, I didn’t realize it was 100% water speed (water being slower than running) It’s still instant cast and gives you underwater breathing.

I wouldn’t be opposed to a speed increase. Wasn’t there a glyph at one point that made it 150% speed?

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That is a talent, it only last a few seconds and has a 30 second CD I believe. It gets rid of our massive heal though.

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Yeah, I use it on my resto druid for BGing. It’s hilarious to see people trying to chase me through the water canal on twink peaks. If they manage to CC me I just trinket and zip away.

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I only play that talent in arenas, having a 30% hp heal is pretty OP imo :stuck_out_tongue:

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It would likely affect us in a negative way. You know how Blizzard operates. There is no way they would give travel form, the most powerful mount in the game by far, equipment without taking something away.

Let’s say they take away instant cast and move it to the mount tab to align it with other mounts so that now we have the ability to use equipment. It probably wouldn’t be something that drastic, but it would be something.

In our current scenario, we get to keep everything about travel form AND also use mount equipment- just on other mounts. So we can still whip out a water walker or a glider.

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I’m a little torn on how to feel about this. But at tge end of the day, it seems like having mount families, with each family having unique abilities, is a far better option than mount equipment.

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I don’t see travel form with mount equipment being a big deal though imo.

It’s comparable to warlocks being able to summon people, even though there is summoning stones outside dungeons / raids. It’s apart of the class and it’s how they add a QoL to the game.

This is the druids version of a QoL change. Everything recently involving travel form, such as the Order hall ”mount” has been making travel form less enjoyable, and taking away from what we worked for.

It really sucks earning all the reputation in legion, working for the class “mount”, only to almost never be able to use it.

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They might eventually add it, like they made travel form work with Pathfinder at the end of Legion, but even if they don’t :woman_shrugging:.

I agree with you that the Legion Class Mount needs to be separate from Travel Form.

For all the rest, I guess I’d like to know what you’re doing now to survive in the situations that are causing such problems. Because, you could keep doing those things…

  • For water-walking, use the raft, it’s a buff, stays on for 10 minutes (during which you can reapply at will) and it will pop up under you when you go on water…in your stag form so no switching to swim form. Also, fun fact: the raft is faster than anything but epic flying. You can get up to 300% speed…
  • The “in combat travel form is only 40%” thing, that’s only if cast in combat. If you go into combat already in travel form you’re still going 100%.
  • Daze: bears like herbs.
  • Being knocked out of flight form: hit boomkin and flap, or invest in some gliders, like everyone already does now…Fun fact: If whoever knocked you out of form can’t keep you in combat, you go back out of combat, and can hit form again…everyone else has to wait for their parachute thingie to set them down.

OR what you could do if you really want to be restricted to one equipment at a time instead of having all these amazing utilities we have, is use an actual mount. Like everyone else.

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Again, like I said, should we just make mage portals worthless and make it so you have to go to SW to take portals now

Or make it so warlocks summoning stone is worthless in newer content?

It’s apart of their class, and doing stuff like that makes them less unique in a group.

Travel form is apart of a druids playstyle.

It’s not about surviving, it’s about getting the QoL improvements for everything, including leaving the waterstrider alone and letting it work with mount equipment.

Leaving things out is annoying. It’s like removing the portals, there is no purpose in removing them. There is no purpose in leaving the travel forms and worgens Running Wild out.

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That only happens in PVP. In PVE, flight for cannot be dismounted. Sorry. flight form is not a mount.

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I would agree, but our class ”mount” in legion was a new flight form skin…

Blizzard looks at them, and treat them as mounts.

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Running Wild is also just faster travel. No other perks, so it behaves just like a mount. It also has the casting time. It should benefit from the equipment.

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I’m guessing since 99% of druids only use the shifting, they didn’t do an actual mount, just a flight form that can carry passengers.

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We just can’t use our ”mount” in a majority of content :pensive:

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You, too can keep from being knocked off your flight mount with the soon-to-be current equipment. Just equip it to your mounts and pick your favorite, and off you go, not to be knocked off by stuns and damage.

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Gosh, I hope not, because then they would take away Druid’s 30+ unique ports. We have more teleport locations than a mage.

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We can’t choose our location, so if you are using that to teleport around, you have to be lucky with RNG. With the CD, you could easily be waiting for 30 min to teleport to the correct spot.

The dreamgrove offers some good portals, but it’s nothing major as we can already go to several of those through other ways.

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Yeah, I ignored that the first time, because it was a dumb statement then, and it still is now. They aren’t taking travel form away nor are they making it worthless.
They just aren’t giving it more perks than it already has…that isn’t the same thing as making you unable to use it, or making it worthless for you to do so.

It’s still very worthwhile; it’s still very usable.

Travel Form is not the victim of mount equipment.

Nor, is it the beneficiary. Because it has nothing to do with it.

Furthermore, nothing that is the beneficiary of this “improvement” is being made better than travel form…

Remember, they can only do one cool thing at a time, and guess what, you can do more cool things at a time, and if you wanted, could get on that mount and do the same one cool thing they can do (if you wanted to downgrade). Just like mages can use the Stormwind portals like everyone else…or they could be cool and use their own.

The “improvements” are still not as good as what we already have…but if you keep complaining about them, we might have them forced upon us, and then Travel Form really will be the victim.

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Paladin and DK mount bonuses in BFA content gets obsoleted by BFA Pathfinder Part 1 (their class mount speed bonuses DO NOT STACK with any other bonuses). That’s why they can still use mount equips: because in BFA content, they only have advantage over players that haven’t done Pathfinder.

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Your time is coming with PF2.