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

YES. I WANT THIS BACK. I’m still bitter.

That was a typo, my bad.

You don’t, true, but you don’t get out of travel form when dazed, which arguably makes it better still and can negate the reason to use anti daze items in the first place.

And gather while in form, and shapeshift out of roots, and a “disengage”.

Druids can literally do anything a normal mount can in their forms.
You need to go in the water? Turn into a manatee!
You need to gather? Don’t bother buying a sky golem! You can just turn into a moose and gather.
You got dazed? Not anymore!
Someone trying to gank you? Jump away!

Not to mention THEY’RE ALL INSTANT CAST AND CAN BE CASTED WHILE IN COMBAT.

@OP Why on EARTH are you complaining about something you shouldn’t be caring about?
If you want to use mounts, don’t play a druid. Easy as that.

I will agree that Running Wild should benefit. But not druids, hell no.

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Super disappointed about running wild. With this new change the racial will become virtually worthless. It’s a mount you can’t fly with, has a lower jump height than other mounts (yes I’ve tested), can’t be used indoors, and now doesn’t benefit from any mount equipment. That’s ridiculous.

Travel form, on the other hand, probably doesn’t need the help of mount equipment. It’s still packed with utility such as insta-cast, interacting with certain objects without having to dismount, and mobs can’t knock you off.

There is items that allow you to do that on any class, and we are NOT protected from daze.

So your point?

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Is that where you stopped reading?

Not really, you move faster when you’re in normal form when dazed because of the way daze affects movement speed.

You do realise this is slower than a mount with water walking right? So many times I’ve tried to escape this way only to be caught by players mounted on water walking mounts.

Since when? Only guardian druids don’t get dazed, and that has nothing to do with travel form. It’s because they are TANKS, and ALL tanks, paladin, warrior, DK and Monk are immune to daze. Nothing to do with druids.

And btw, druids still shift out of form when mining… Also we have a cooldown on our forms when shifting out… we can’t instashift anymore… it’s on the global c/d.

This is all I needed to read to know what you are getting at.

Everything a Druid can do, you can do except instant cast mounts :slight_smile:

I know, I’m just as shocked as you are!

Sure thing. You could’ve just swam down and then their water walking mount would be useless.

Oh no, you have to wait 1 second to cast your stuff :crying_cat_face: .

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This is so wrong on so many levels and I’ve already been over this bs craptastic fail argument. Stop trying to use this as some sort of justification.

Aquatic is slow and worthless. No one uses it. We do get dazed and if we hit water while in combat, we will get kicked out of our form and we move slower in combat. Gank us and jump away? What is that even? No one hits travel form for that. Like any other sane person, you hit your speed boost.

Nothing you’ve said outside of herbing is even remotely an argument. Not when other classes have so many perks and there’s still bardings and potions.

As I’ve said, stick with the herbing argument and quit with this “you’re OP” bs that’s been shot down multiple times over the years.

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Wrong.

Mounted gathering: all of the Druids Travel Forma have this.

Aquatic Mount: activates instantly upon entering water deep enough to swim while in Travel Form. Activates automatically if submerged while in Flight Form. Also, so what if it’s slower than your ground travel, it is still useful. And despite what you believe, A LOT of druids make regular use of it. It is instantaneous, unless you’re going to be traveling across a LOT of water, it’s usually faster to just dive on in while in travel form and get your aquatic form speed. It also includes built in waterbreathing… well look at that, yet another automatic benefit.

Combat Cast: it may be slower but it automatically returns to full ground speed a few seconds after exiting combat. Flight is unavailable in combat because it is OP.

Daze Resistant: unless your flying Daze just drops you to combat speed in Druid Form. Daze dismount while flying is to be expected, and quite frankly if Druids got Daze Resist while flying automatically it would be very OP. Also, being attacked while running through mobs doesn’t always trigger combat speed for Druids, it’s only after they get Dazed, attack back, stop running, or are Continually attacked.

Instant Flight: the key point of this is the ability to save yourself from falling damage. While it may be unavailable in combat to Druids, this is still an automatic feature of Travel Form. Sure, other classes may have better access to this type of ability, but that doesn’t negate the fact that this is still bundled into Druids Travel Form with all the others.

The Flight benefits are the only things that are disabled on Druids periodically, the rest of the benefits of their Travel Form remain active constantly.

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Well you aren’t a mount. Your benefit is being able to instantly switch to travel forms for the purpose of escaping.

So I can shapeshift out of roots too?
I can go bear form as a healer and take 0 damage?
I can do more damage as a healer than a normal dps class in a dungeon?
And more healing as hybrid than a healer?
I can gather herbs while “mounted” without having to purchase a special mount?
I can have permanent water breathing and increased swim speed?
I can spam 3 different DRs on another player?

Go home, you’re drunk.
Druids have advantages over almost every aspect in game. You’re clearly missing out on all the good druid stuff because you’re too busy complaining about irrelevant stuff like not being able to water walk while in travel form.

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Because some people like swimming and might like to use it to explore? I was merely pointing out there might be a problem for the way the auto transition works atm.

Personally, I’d rather have an option for separate buttons again as the combined travel button is still so buggy. An increase to swim speed would be nice so that some people playing druid wouldn’t feel the need to use a mount for water walking. It doesn’t bother me as I just choose whatever I feel like and don’t really feel the need to rush anywhere so I never really noticed there was a huge difference in speed. I generally use the strider when I don’t feel like dealing with hostiles or I keep getting popped into elven form :slight_smile:

I agree on the separate button for the class mount. I like your 2nd idea too - this way you have an option to not auto transition.

As an aside, I would worry that applying this system could end up screwing over druids and we’d lose something. They have a bad habit of taking something when they give something.

While the worgen’s Running wild shouldn’t get any equipment. Maybe they should make it akin to how travel form works (insta-cast, but no swimming/flying, of course) But that’s just my opinion.

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Is slower and useless and no one uses it. Already been over that.

This is wrong. You have to shift out and back in for that to work.

And barding exists for everyone else.

This is such a fail argument, because no one needs this for out of combat. :roll_eyes:

And yet DKs run around with water walking, faster mount speed AND equipment. :thinking:

The ONLY argument that needs to be made is that it gathers like the Sky Golem. This fake news over everything else is pointless and a bad argument when other classes, potions, etc. make almost everything work the same.

None of this has anything to do with travel form or the mount equipment. You’re the one that needs to “go home, you’re drunk.”

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Most likely. Though I don’t think mount equipment is going to last past this expansion anyway. Or if it does, it’ll be gated behind Pathfinder.

Anywho, I’m out. Bedtime before work.

I’ll leave with this: I have no problems with druids not getting mount equipment. I DO take offense to all of these fail “you’re OP” crap arguments I keep seeing.

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Then don’t say anything a druid can do, I can do, because its clearly not true.

And it costs me money to “do what a druid can do”. I have to purchase items to make the swaps, they’re like gems so they get destroyed. And the current stuff is not cheap. You do it for free.

Also, aw, hiding on an alt now? Cute.

Tavel form is the most op mount but thats never enough I guess

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I guess they could make it an option of either having no equipment or you add equipment and lose the instant cast.