Clarity please on Water Strider

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I’m sorta thinking that -might- be incorrect and here’s why:

Rep is account bound, but having angler rep is no indication that we actually purchased a water strider, so they can’t really base auto-mail on that.

They’ll add something to the ‘login check’ that sees if we qualify for newly added achievements. They’ll add an achievement for owning a water strider, and it’ll trigger achievement reward delivery by whatever mechanism they decide on. (mail in this case)

Every alt we log in will check critera, fanfare the new achievement and trigger the reward delivery.

To do anything else would likely require them to craft some new delivery mechanism for a special case. And they’re clearly trying to reduce ‘special cases’.

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For you?

We keep complaining, you keep trolling. So obviously it’s working out great to the only person that really matters in your universe. :wink:

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461

hows that Master loot thing going for ya?
Flight never was removed, btw.
And the CoT portal is supposedly being put back
Try harder.

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:+1:
Just getting the attention we’re not getting elsewhere.
It happens.

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Nice little tidbit here

Judge announced that Blizzard thinks the price should be 1,000 gold .
wowhead. com/news=291153/mount-equipment-water-walking-and-new-mounts-in-patch-8-2-rise-of-azshara#mount-equipment-slots

x48 of my alts.
48000 gold for something I did the grind for.
MY time invested STOLEN from me and RESOLD to me.
Yeah…NEVER playing this game again.

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As I said a long time ago in the portal thread; I :heart: Schadenfreude.

It never affected me since I am not a raider.

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Well, you’re welcome then. :wink:

sigh … this isn’t good. I’ve been in game for an hour and 99% of that has been here on the forums.

Guess I’m just not feeling very compelled to play today. May as well get outside and enjoy some sun. Ta!

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467

fam what is your malfunction? if you own the strider now, you get the equipment FREE OF CHARGE on patch day and it is BIND ON ACCOUNT.

where is the backtracking? ‘charging you more gold’? it’s FREE. what part are you not understanding

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The part where it AINT FREE for ANY characters beyond the first one.
Easy enough?
I have 50 some odd characters.
I’ll have to PAY for ALL of those to have water walking now past the first one.
capiche?

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Which means I can pick one alt to send it to. And then I can buy more and send those to other alts. What part are YOU not understanding?

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According to the info we have so far, you receive 1 item. This item is BoA yes, but that does not mean it isn’t consumed on use, just that you can mail to any of your characters. It only works on 1 character, singular. This means you have to buy additional equipment items for each and every alt you have to use water walking.

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I agree. The damned thing is called a “Water Strider”. That is, it strides on water. Not because it has some slotted item equipped but because of its innate ability which is the same as the small critter variety. Why take away a Water Strider’s ability to walk on water? Are they doing it with all the water strider creatures as well?

He wants us not to use it all the time? Fine, give us that option for other mounts to have the same ability because players do love choice. But doing this to the Strider that so many of us worked so hard for is a real slap in the face. I earned this mount back in MoP when it was a grind and my efforts have been rewarded with a nerf.

I’m quite annoyed at this act. Certainly it isn’t a gamer breaker, it’s not huge in the scale of things. But it’s just so damned stupidly mean.

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473

Be funny to go out to Jade Forest, or many MoP zones, and see the NPC’s slogging through the water, instead of walking on it.

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So much hubris.
So little knowledge.

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475

And if im just passing through TN to go south?

But ok…

Every Island Expidition
Tiragarde Sound
Drustvar
Stormsong Valley
Zuldazar
Nazmir
Blasted Lands (in the south)
Swamp of Sorrows
Redridge Mountains
Loch Modan
Dustwallow Marsh
Tanaris
Darkshore
Ashenvale
UnGoro Crater
Feralas
Desolace
Azshara
Stranglethorn Vale
Wetlands
Arathi Highlands
Hinterlands
EPL
WPL
Ghostlands
Eversong Woods

And before you start saying that some of these don’t meet your qualification for “large body of water”, well, my criteria is different. I don’t want even a river to slow my speed. And the constant back and forth nature of questing requires that you cross the same rivers and lakes multiple times.

On top of that many of the places I named are on the coast where a water strider is very useful (especially places like tanaris or drustvar where you can travel across the water on the coast to get from place to place or where you might fight yourself questing).

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Man you’re really stretching.

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Is it unlimited usage? (unknown/unverified at this point)
Do all of your existing characters receive one? (unknown/unverified at this point)
Do all of your future-made characters receive one? (unknown/unverified at this point)

If any of the above criteria aren’t met, then Kaviax’s statement of

is inaccurate.

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My original criteria was sub-60 zones. Flight renders water-walking irrelevant. BfA zones are acceptable WWs at the moment, since we are flight-less there.

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I was thinking the same thing. Why is he so against others wanting a better option (which many others have voiced) when the entire situation doesn’t have any effect on him or his game playing? It’s not like a majority are saying do not add this mechanic at all, but treat the strider like the golem. I mean he’s all okay with the golem getting special treatment and frankly that is more of a “lazy crutch” than the strider. Heck, even flying can be called a “lazy crutch”.

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Information on this has been posted/tubed/commented on by people that attended the summit. T&E specifically I know spoke about this. When it goes live you will get a free pair of water walking gear if you already have the strider. Thereafter you will be able to buy a new pair (if you should need them) at a much discounted price from the anglers.

We all await some blue text confirming this of course, and as it has not even hit the PTR is subject to change.

Also…condescension toward/about the CS reps is unwarranted and unbecoming.