You’re right, and you know what, that’s honestly not a bad thing, just from the pricing on Illidan, it means it’s accessible. No complaints here.
If you want a real dilemma to look at about earning something, people who buy raid runs for gold think they’re just as good as mythic raiders.
Smartest? A buggy cosmetic upgrade that’s obsolete in less that a month from implementation?
That is the smartest thing they’ve considered in a while?
Could the bar be set any lower?
Working as intended. Now nobody will notice when they quietly drop mount equipment…until the next no-fly zone rolls around.
Yeah! As people earn flying, they won’t have any need for mount equipment, which means it can be quietly dropped next expac and the blowback for removing waterwalking from Striders will be completely weathered!
It really is the smartest decision Blizzard has made, and what a high bar they had to clear.
Lol don’t give them any ideas.
Yup. No one will even notice when that piece of equipment disappears until they can’t walk on water in 9.0.
Wonder how many will wish the strider had retained its passive then. ![:frowning:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/frowning.png?v=6" ":frowning:")
I will be one who does.
I’m already wishing it had.
My characters, despite having water-walking equipped, keep losing the ability to water-walk for no reason at all.
I’m sure you can guess how much scorn and disgust I feel toward Blizzard for this mess.
I’ve had this issue also. Specially when you need water walking the most.
The problem was that this was a monster that blizzard let get of control. Everyone was using it… to the point that’s the only mount you would ever see a lot of people on. No matter what they were going to do people were going to complain.
I honestly think they should’ve just slapped that the effect was only useful in areas for the expansion in which the strider was released and called it a day.
Still don’t make sense to me. The bug was indeed ugly AF. But it was cosmetic only.
Not true…
If it wasn’t true then blizzard likely wouldn’t have made a change.
That is some more circular logic. Barely half of the players even had the mount. Therefore, not everyone had it.
And saying that you saw everyone using it is hyperbole.
There are multiple possibilities for why they changed it and I think most of us here know exactly why. Don’t be double digit.
No, that one is actually quite literally. When I was out and about if someone wasn’t a DK or a shaman then surprise, surprise… They were riding that ugly bug.
100%? nope as it isn’t true because it is fact that only barely half of the players had the mount. The rest either didn’t care or were just too lazy to go get the thing and would rather wait for blizzard to hand the ability to them while defending the bad system in which they did it.
Also, anecdotal evidence means nothing.
And surprise surprise, you don’t have it either.
Yes, I was seeing practically everyone on it. What I am able to physically see with my own two eyes isn’t up for debate.
They made the change and people need to get over it already.
They already did.
Gutted the strider in the process, made equipment per toon and not per mount, in addition to all the other bugs and crap other posters have described.
You’re right that it isn’t up for debate as it is factually impossible, unsubstantiated, and anecdotal anyways. It’s irrelevant what you claim to have seen when you can’t back it up.
You got something you didn’t earn and of course you’ll defend it. You’re too lazy to get the mount that wasn’t hard or exclusive but you’re not too lazy to defend such a sleazy way to gut something other players spent time to earn.
If paying customers have problems with a change made to a product a company makes,
They have every right to voice their displeasure with it.
He doesn’t have the mount so what it translates to is, “I got the ability with no effort and you need to get over them taking it from you because me.”