Don't Nerf Our Mounts!

[Normercy-aggramar (Normercy)]

Oh no… are you telling me you will have to go get the equipment on more than one character???

[Wínter-twisting-nether]

I don’t get it either.
Mount equipment sounds really interesting.

Maybe I’m bias, chuckle worthy seeing giant Tauren and Orcs flailing around on water striders everywhere. Maybe it’s the running animation? Dunno, complaints man… always somethin’

[Ruddypiper-sargeras (Ruddypiper)]

You’re incorrectly understanding the system, by the way. It is not mount specific. It is character specific. One slot per character.

If it is like this, then the 1 free water walking consumable isn’t an improvement because you’re then buying, even at a discount, more consumables for each character or to change effects between characters.

If you didn’t unlock the Water Strider, it’s still no improvement since you’ll have to go back and rep farm to be able to buy the consumables. Which will presumably be the case for the others as well.

Meanwhile, I have a keybound flying mount that should by default be able to glide and hover over water in no flying content without farming rep and buying consumables.

Daze isn’t a problem for me. I can get gliders from my WoD garrison. I can also Heroic Leap to avoid fall damage.

I don’t really see this adding any game changing functionality except for players who want to ride off the edge of places like Legion Dalaran on their $5M longboi and parachute down.

[Tovi-moon-guard (Tovi)]

how anyone can be upset at this?

Because people will complain about anything.

I’m looking forward to making my boat an actual boat.

[Terrormu-argent-dawn]

My question about the water walking mount thing, how is going to work with the DK ability that gives mounts water walking? So will DK have the advantage of being able to equip all their mounts with other features since they can already make their mounts water walk, or will they nerf that ability?

[Caelia-uldaman (Caelia)]

@Normercy-aggramar

Oh no… are you telling me you will have to go get the equipment on more than one character???

I mean, you’re the one in here telling people they can apply equipment to individual mounts and you’re wrong.

If I can get the equipment for free forever on every single one of my characters across my Battle.net account, then I’m fine with that.

@Ruddypiper-sargeras

If it is like this, then the 1 free water walking consumable isn’t an improvement because you’re then buying, even at a discount, more consumables for each character or to change effects between characters.

Here, this guy pointed out the specific spot in the stream.

@Pocketmage-ghostlands

Hang on I found it! Liveblog of the Patch 8.2 Rise of Azshara Content Preview Stream At about 00:58:00 he talks about the mount equipment.

This Equipment slot is on your character and once you apply a piece of mount equipment to it all your mounts will receive this benefit.

[Tovi-moon-guard (Tovi)]

or will they nerf that ability?

They better not.

[Normercy-aggramar (Normercy)]

@Caelia-uldaman

I mean, you’re the one in here telling people they can apply equipment to individual mounts and you’re wrong.

If I can get the equipment for free forever on every single one of my characters across my [Battle.net](http://Battle.net) account, then I’m fine with that.

You are right. For those that didnt read what was said. If you have the rep for the Waterstrider, you can acquire a waterstriding trait for free on that character. Additional waterstriding equipment will be “heavily discounted”.

Now you are happy with “free” which is fine. We dont know what “heavily discounted” means. and THAT price c9ould be akin to “free” for most. We dont know know what NON discounted prices are either… so there is a lot of “sky is falling” over nothing at this point.

[Caelia-uldaman (Caelia)]

That still doesn’t address the difference in how they’re treating one special mount over another. That is my gripe. Treat them all the same, one way or the other.

Either the Sky Golem needs to lose its ability, or the Striders need to keep theirs and not be affected by the mount equipment.

[Ruddypiper-sargeras (Ruddypiper)]

We dont know know what NON discounted prices are either… so there is a lot of “sky is falling” over nothing at this point.

We have Goblin Gliders, Bardings, the thing that lets you gather while mounted, parachutes, and existing water walking spells, potions and effects already implemented in the game.

I don’t care for the water strider so I didn’t farm the rep while current. I’m not going to go back and farm the rep in order to buy multiple consumables now either.

They could have added glide baseline to all flying mounts and made Water Walking via the strider unlock character or account based.

This is just another system aimed at getting people to grind reps and spend gold.

[Normercy-aggramar (Normercy)]

I would agree IF the Golems ability could be applied to any other mount. (Maybe it will be at some point)

[Kariso-turalyon]

Nothing against the mount equipment but why nerf the water strider?

They need to stop taking away stuff from us.

Believe me the golem is next, rip all those players who wasted their gold on it.

[Normercy-aggramar (Normercy)]

This is just another system aimed at getting people to grind reps and spend gold.

You are lucky then, it wasnt worth it to you so you dont have to use the system.

[Caelia-uldaman (Caelia)]

That’s the thing, this is only the start of that system. Once the PTR goes live and the datamining spam posts start flowing, we’ll see what else they neglected to mention.

[Normercy-aggramar (Normercy)]

OK… so whats the problem with having more abilities to choose from, if they come?

[Tovi-moon-guard (Tovi)]

Nothing against the mount equipment but why nerf the water strider?

My guess is because we could go right back to the Water Strider mount being the only one worth using. Having water walking and a slot for no daze would make it “overpowered,” so to speak. I’m a DK so I’ll get this anyways.

[Warpstone-norgannon (Warpstone)]

I am genuinely curious here. I’m going to copy-paste what I wrote in another topic, because I want to understand your point of view.

Most of the people I’ve seen give criticism don’t seem to understand the following confirmed facts:

• If you have a Waterstrider, you get a FREE water walking equipment on the toon that has the rep.
• If you have a toon at 100, the equipment system is unlocked ACCOUNT-WIDE.
• If you have a Waterstrider, you can buy a heavily discounted account-bound waterwalking equipment, which any alt can use when they unlock mounts at level 20.

I genuinely don’t understand, if people are aware of the above 3 facts, how anyone can be upset at this? You can keep what you earned, you just have a tiny little hoop to jump through first.

Can i mount on my water strider and use a barding so i can walk on water and not be dazed at the same time? If not this is a huge nerf, and a mistake. This is one thing i’m upset about.

Now I will have to spend thousands of gold to switch between the two or just have no daze equipped and swim when ever i get to water. Seems to me this is nothing but another ploy to slow us down more.

Because we all know Blizzard believes the more time we play the more fun we have and it looks good to the board.

[Caelia-uldaman (Caelia)]

I’m not saying there’s a problem with that. I think it’s a great start to the system. I’m saying that, right now, there’s a problem with how they’re treating the mounts.

[Dumuntor-vashj]

Your water strider will be able to do exactly what it does now. I genuinely don’t understand what the problem is.

Oh you know, people find anything to complain about even after confirmed facts were posted.

[Warpstone-norgannon (Warpstone)]

Can i mount on my water strider and use a barding so i can walk on water and not be dazed at the same time? If not this is a huge nerf. Now I have to choose between the 2, so yes Blizzard is taking my water striders ability away.