its fine they got water breathing instead, then the Dks stole your Water walking and the DH stole from the locks too
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are you just arguing for the sake of arguing? I claimed people can easily just do a dragon flying quest if they are short $40 gold and you claimed dragon flying wasnāt around 5 years ago.
Do you seriously think OP is still complaining about spending $40 5 years ago?
I was thinking about how on my hunters, if I used the striders for pets, I got WWing too. That was so damned unique and cool.
Like removing First Aidā¦just stripping this game of everything unique and interesting even if not overly important
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no, theyāre complaining about spending 40g every time they want to create a new alt for the last 5 years.
ā¦and then they abandoned mount equipment, instead of expanding on it.
seems like it was a terrible idea to begin with.
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Prefer lava walking mounts
Doesnāt mean they still have the character they did the rep on, that one isnāt account wide. So if, for whatever reason, they deleted that character, theyād have to regrind the rep.
I wouldnāt mind if Blizz made the Water Strider a perma water walking mount that canāt equip any other stuff.
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So you have Nat Pagle Rep, correct?
Itās 40 gold per. Thatās not a lot of gold even of you have 59 alts you need to equip.
I get it, I was a little peeved at first, but when you consider for the 40G pertoon almost all your mounts now can walk on water.
Most of my alts got the Anglersā Water Striders put in their bags a long time ago, automatically. For new alts, I just go buy it on my main and mail it to the alt that doesnāt have it.
So, unless OP doesnāt have all the other requirements or I read this part wrong.
I donāt see an issue.
Was it a pain they took away the WW ability from the mounts we grinded for? Maybe, but that is what it is and a solution was given.
Firstly, I would NEVER delete a character that had done Nat Pagle - like ever - but maybe thatās just me.
Undelete is a thing if the player truly finds it inconvenient to have to grind that rep again.
Mount Gear is not tied to the mount it is tied to the Mount Gear slot, They would have to run code that disabled the slot only while that mount is active, and knowing blizz it would get messed up and not fixed for months/years.
I donāt think they are - when they said mount equipment I believe they were talking about the crafted mount equipment you buy off the auction house and that could get expensive after awhile. Doing that would annoy me. Spending 40g for each alt isnāt worth being annoyed about.
this is a good point too.
people donāt just stop at 60
they delete and recreate new characters.
itās an ongoing costā¦ with the creation of every new character, ever.
I get it, but you could literally trip over a mob and have 40G.
We have repair bills, transmog, chants, potions etc for every toon, ever. If OP has the ability buy said mount equipment at 40G, Iām still not seeing the issue, bar the slight āinconvenienceā of having to go get it.
I guess others see issues where I see none 
again, itās not about the cost.
itās about the principle.
lots of people pointed out how crazy it was to make a change like this, when it made no sense.
mount equipment was a failed experiment, and weāre stuck with the fallout.
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They could have left the water walking mounts and just not made them able to use mount equipment. They did this with the herb mount, you can still pick herbs with it but you are not able to use mount equipment with it.
They already did this for the Sky Golem. The code already exists. They would just have to add the same flag to the Water Striders.
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The 1st time they tried to nerf the strider was in Legion, if I recall. I didnāt even have one at that time and thought it was a bad idea. Ppl took a lot of time to either farm the mount or the rep to buy the mount.
Then came the mount equipment. I agree with those in this thread who think that was created to nerf the strider. Has it been updated since? Any new mount equipment in another expac?
I will say, with the addition of the ottuk mounts, Iād never use a strider again even if the bugs suddenly learned how to stride on water again. I can see the ability of the ottuk to swim fast with be nerfed next time we have an expac with water obstacles the devs want us to slow us down with (Iām avoiding the use of immersion here since Iām talking about water).
the turtle used to swim faster.
ottuk should be scared.
Wait seriously? then why the hell did they beat up and break my poor water striders legs like he owed the mob money?
But I donāt want to ride that stupid bug.
I want to red my cool red skeleton horse.