Seems like they just wanted to silence the people crying about water striders and announced it as a “feature” in a light content patch.
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As far as I am concerned it is no longer a feature in the game. I put my free waterwalking equipment in the slot. So now its just as if blizz announced “all mounts will waterwalk now” which is ok, I hate the way the water strider looked, but all the other mount equipment is pointless so it might as well not exist to me.
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The issue is real, and annoying. Some of us spend many hours grinding out a mount to run across water, and we could use that mount and it’s feature as soon as we could mount up, level 20 currently. In comes a “feature” that basically removes this from your new alts. Sure you can use the mount, but it looses it’s unique ability, sure you can spend a bunch of gold to buy it, but seriously it’s a pain to get to that vendor and keep buying it for each new alt, and since Allied Races are a thing, and the Heritage armor is important, this means a lot of new Alts. I personally have spent several thousand gold to get the equipment to my new allied race alts.
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It was just a way to get rid of the water striders’ ability and appease the ones that had them. All of my characters will forever use the water walking equipment.
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Glad blizz could waste dev time on this
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To me it never really seemed to be a feature just an excuse to remove water walking from the striders. If they added more stuff and gave it a purpose my opinion may change but for now it was a useless addition.
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While it’s “kinda” cool to use whatever mount and walk on the water, I’m extremely miffed they stripped the ONE cool thing about the water strider. Instead of promoting the anti-daze or whatever else is out there I just use nats water walking thing for all mounts.
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I just use the +20% mount speed thing so that i can always lead ahead of the groups and catch up to dps. I seem to be the only person that uses it though, why waterwalking though?
I’m worried was just laying the framework to make us regrind water walking every expansion.
Mount equipment won’t work in the next expansion and we’ll have to regrind for the new stuff, for example.
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Like what do you want them todo? We have water walking, daze protection, etc.
I default to water walking cause that’s what i use in no flight zones.
Honestly, the water walking equipment is SO powerful and useful, it just highlights how powerful the water strider was in the first place.
Instead of the water strider invalidating all of your other ground mounts, we now have a situation where the water walking equipment is invalidating an entire game system.
I’m not saying I don’t enjoy the fact that there’s alot more variety in the choices I can make for ground mounts, but it’s going to talk a SERIOUSLY good equipment to get me to consider changing it.
I actually had an idea for mounts (Ironically enough, I posted it to the forums not too terribly long before mount equipment was announced). What if there was an equipment that let you use ANY ground mount as a flying mount? Like, maybe it would sprout wings, or have a cloud effect under it, or something like that.
But the bottom line would be, ALL mounts could be used at flying mounts. I think an equipment like THAT might just be powerful enough to get some people to consider, if not entirely removing the water walking one, at least change it out every once in awhile.
They conveniently rolled out water walking mount equipment with pathfinder 2.0, and now I can’t think of the last time I needed water walking outside of Shrine of the Storm. It wouldn’t annoy me so much if they weren’t so indignant about keeping pathfinder in the game. At this point them clinging to pathfinder is just coming across as a tantrum.
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My understanding is that is EXACTLY why they added mount equipment. They didn’t like it that water-striders were considered virtually mandatory until flight came out. They wanted players to be able to use other ground mounts.
Their solution: Mount Equipment.
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They finally killed the water bug and tried to paint it as some QOL improvement. It’s broken now. That’s honestly all they care about.
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Most of my alts do not even have anything equipped at all, once I got flying the mount equipment was useless. Besides it will more than likely be removed next expac and then we will have nothing anyway.
With tokens being a thing, putting more and more gold sinks in the game while removing and nerfing methods of obtaining gold (Garrison and Class Hall mission tables) is what we have to expect from this scummy Blizzard nowadays.
Spending gold to buy equipment on every alt i make is just BS.
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Yeah I’m guessing it was mostly for;
People complaining about not being able to water walk (didn’t want to do the grind to get strider)… they also have not liked the strider for a long time so there is that.
And to include dazes and such next expansion so you’ll be slowed down even more.
Why would they push more time into the mount equipment this expansion. It’s clear they are going to experiment here or there but really just shift majority focus to 9.0 so expect some ground work system wise laid down in the coming several months for more things used in 9.0 Perhaps.
I never even had the Water Strider…
Eh, I’m comfortable not being knocked off my mount.
I don’t think they did. I’m sure they’ll come out with more eventually. I’ve never used any, because as a blood dk with flying i already have water walking, daze immunity, faster mount speed, and no use for slow fall.
This is why I like Gnomes. Telling like it is.
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