but my personal opinion from my play experience is that the water strider ability is just much stronger than the sky golem herbing.
My personal opinion from my play experience says the opposite. The golem has a direct effect on gathering productivity. It increases your potential gold gain and has flight in areas it’s enabled allowing you to bypass mobs AND water; while the striders only negate the movement speed penalty of crossing water while traveling on the ground.
Bornakk:
We nerfed the water strider once and if we leave it with the ability there then it’s more in the line of getting everything and less of making a choice for what you want.
What’s wrong with getting everything we earn?
Bornakk:
Just something I’d like to get your perspective on, if the character who earned the Anglers reputation along with the mount gets the water walking item for free, what would a fair price be for the alts to get it?
Free. It’s already been paid for when the mount was earned.
Bornakk:
do you feel that alts should have every single thing that the other characters have?
No, but they should have everything account bound that the account earned. Are heirlooms safe? Every other mount? Pets? Toys? Various content unlocks (pathfinder/intro skips/etc)?
This goes to both of the previous two quotes about alt price/access: We’ve been able to get current content gear for alts through BoA tokens at multiple points in the game with another coming soon, but alts can’t get free water shoes?
Bornakk:
Also, just out of curiosity, how often would you estimate that you have you used the water strider mount in the 6+ years it’s been available?
Not nearly as often as other mounts. What is “used” would need to be defined. Do you want distance traveled or most often summoned? All my characters use the repair mount quite often, but it doesn’t really leave the spot I summon at. They all have their mounts (many times to go with mogs/themes). Strider, X-53, repair, transmog, swimmers, flight, and style… my mount depends on the area and reason for summoning.
Bornakk:
There are a lot of mounts out there and it’s strange to have a “wrong choice” when out running around.
When do we get access to the auctionhouse, transmog, gathering, passenger, and repair mount equipment?
I’m pretty sure that trying to put stuff up for sale, or taxi a friend, on my violet protodrake would be the wrong choice.
If the striders were given the same treatment as the golem, no change to function and no benefit from the system, this whole issue could have been avoided. The fact that other mounts are keeping their perks shows that it’s possible. The striders are the only ones being hit. There’s more going on behind the curtain that’s not being said.