Mount equipment *sigh*

[Urrik-moon-guard]

they don’t want people having 3 mounts each with their own affect. then they wouldn’t have to go get more. it’s a gold sink.

Yes, a gold sink, and a really clunky, inconvenient way to provide this functionality that we already had.

This could have been such a cool addition to the game, but in its current incarnation, it’s terrible.

[Urrik-moon-guard]

Humorous or completely stupid?

I’m trying to stay lightheated today, so I’m going with humorous. Catch me on another day, and I might have a different answer for you.

[Goregroth-hellscream]

Lol fair enough

[Phydeaux-windrunner (Phydeaux)]

There’s nothing logical about it; a stupid question is not acknowledged, that’s all there is to it. One of your fellow Strider Complainers

Be careful there. I’m not being insulting to you here. I’m saying that your reasoning of ‘they obsolete things and they were just late in this instance’ is not right. It’s purely subjective in nature, and can be disproven by the ways that I stated (gems can still be used, drakes still fly).

Only systems change every expansion. Items that you earn don’t stop working. My necklace to the black temple, my ring to dalaran, my timeless isle trinket…they all work. I earned all of them.

So please stop with the preaching. You are just wrong about the official reasons, and instead are peddling your own opinion of things.

These are are the sort of “but why? but why?” questions parents tired of, honestly.

If you aren’t close to 70 years old, then I am the adult in this discussion and you may be old enough to be my child. So stop with this projected feeling of superiority, please.

[Gukumatzz-illidan]

Yeah it sucks. The only good thing about this is I’ll never have to use a water strider again.

[Urrik-moon-guard]

You are just wrong about the official reasons, and instead are peddling your own opinion of things.

Not to mention being condescending.

[Liolang-daggerspine]

I’m not sure you know what that word means. People earned it they can use it.

Exactly.
Just wait till something THEY have worked for is screwed with enough that it annoys them. They’ll be in here screaming about it and those of us who arent affected as much can tell them how entitled they are.

[Liolang-daggerspine]

They won’t. They will get it for free.

uh…no…they wont.
They get it ‘free’ for characters level 100+
I have probably 60 characters now who are LOWER than 100 who all have to BUY equipment to do something I EARNED TWICE.

[Liolang-daggerspine]

This could have been such a cool addition to the game, but in its current incarnation, it’s terrible.

And as per usual anything that SEEMS to be for our benefit always has some underlying agenda tied to it.
I agree with the others who have said that blizzard will now use this equipment to ‘turn off’ water walking in new expansions until X date…or even make a grotesque ‘pathfinder’ thing out of it for water walking.
Just one more reason for me to never, ever buy another expansion.

[Taivora-dark-iron]

It’s a crap change designed to force players to keep updating their mount equipment (gold sink) while Blizzard keeps padding in ever more wasted time with environmental design (no flying, water obstacles, packed with daze / dismount mobs, vertical stacked terrain, terrain mazes).

If this been an actual improvement designed for the benefit of players, equipment would be per mount, and mounts with pre-existing features such as the water strider with water walking would not be affected.

Your whole post is on point. The part I bolded makes me sad because it does feel like the devs aren’t really doing this to help players and improve QOL.

The crap design decisions being made to this game make me not want to support it. I want to love this game and I want it to be good, but the devs are making it unbelievably difficult.

[Tarc-fenris (Tarc)]

Items that you earn don’t stop working. My necklace to the black temple, my ring to dalaran, my timeless isle trinket…they all work.

You’re cherry-picking to suit your own flailing narrative. Legion weapon trains no longer work. MoP cloak effects no longer work in new content. I earned the ability to socket wrist gear on my BS in WotlK, that’s long gone.

Many things change and retire over the course of a 15 year-old game. Now the WW of 2 mounts have been added to that, as the devs have long been tired of seeing this silly entitled crutch being used in expansions after expansion.

Their only fault is that they didn’t do this sooner.

Adapt, or move on. :

The part I bolded makes me sad because it does feel like the devs aren’t really doing this to help players and improve QOL.

The part you bolded speaks to the lazy entitlement that is, thankfully, going away.

[Gladewiing-aggramar (Gladewiing)]

More than half the income from WoW is now generated by token sales.

Where in the world did you get this figure? Also, that is a mighty big conspiracy theory.

[Phydeaux-windrunner (Phydeaux)]

Legion weapon trains no longer work. MoP cloak effects no longer work in new content. I earned the ability to socket wrist gear on my BS in WotlK, that’s long gone.

And I’ve said numerous times those aren’t the same things as mounts. So let’s ask again, should Drakes still fly?

This isn’t difficult. You just lack the ability to be self reflective and realize when you’re wrong.

I mean you are entitled to your opinion (correct usage of the word entitled by the way), but you are still wrong about the premise that it’s obsolete. Hell, nobody at Blizzard has said that it was obsolescence.

[Tarc-fenris (Tarc)]

And I’ve said numerous times those aren’t the same things as mounts.

And I’ve said numerous times “they are now”.

Accept, or move on.

[Brette-wyrmrest-accord]

Lol, they are removing water walking from shaman? Was just leveling my KT shaman in STV literally last night, discovering how fun it was to walk on water like Jesus across the river instead of mounting.

RIP this game, man, they can’t leave anything fun alone. I know, let’s prune more, that’s fun!

=(

[Ravensèyé-tichondrius]

Good? The MoP strider should have been obsoleted when WoD launched. Then maybe we’d have a bit less entitlement around here over it all.

That doesn’t sound spiteful and cancerous at all. Nope, sure doesn’t.

I’ve always eyerolled at the hissy fits over “dazing”. Obviously I have had some chars that have been dismounted when I tried to run through a horde, but that’s my fault for trying to roll the dice. In most cases you can, y’know, go around em.

Yeah bud. You go to Nazmir and try to “go around” those superfish swimming at 300% speed. No one even talked about pvp dazing. You must be prot. the only way I can see you being naive about the amount of dazing added into BFA.

[Goregroth-hellscream]

They are!? Source… Now!

[Brette-wyrmrest-accord]

Just people in this thread, I hope they’re wrong.

[Absentiá-maelstrom]

There has been no indication that will happen, but at this point who knows.

[Ragnoiros-sargeras]

Yes, they are reagents for equipment.

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