Doesn’t make any sense to me either but I doubt they’ll reverse.
We had to get to Exalted to get water walking built in, it’s not like it was as easy to get as pushing a button for instant water walking like DKs, which they are still allowed to use.
There are 5.
I’ve never met anyone who uses anything other than the water one though. I’m sure there are people who use the others, I’ve just never known anyone personally who does. Most folks I know just use the saddles and leave the equipment slots with the WW, and the only saddle I’ve ever ever personally used is the one to allow for picking up the jellies without being dismounted when I was grinding the Bee Mount.
must be new i guess. last i left i remember the saddles and what not but we didn’t even know what they did. yea most of them look pretty pointless atm tbh come SL though it will be useful. the parachute one is kinda useful but really almost every class has a way to negate fall damage in a way.
There’d be a free ability not taking up a slot, making a mount from several expansions ago hands down the best one in the game. Everyone would be on water striders which would be more stupid.
This is an MMORPG. Everything is subject to change… Hell, the entire game could shut down permanently tomorrow.
Everyone said the same thing when they were introduced this expansion (at the beginning of the Mecha/Naz Patch) because there are things that will shoot you out of the air in Mecha and Naz is almost completely vertical. They weren’t more useful before flight due to all the water that has to be traversed, and after flight they remained useless because the Mecha stuff is easy to avoid and flight is better all around than any of the equipment.
Also, saddles are still a thing so you can just use those anyway.
Maybe though. Maybe Blizz will do something actually meaningful with them. I am not holding my breath, though.
You guys keep saying this. This was said before, during, and now, after the equipment was brought about. It isn’t, never has been, and never will be true, however.
Only half of the playerbase even has a Waterstrider. Therefore, “everyone” on Waterstriders is impossible.
Sky Golem is not affected by equipment.
We asked that Water Striders be treated the same way.
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yep. a few lazy players started crying and complaining to the devs about rep requirements so they removed water walking from mounts and added a lame socket
Nah, I disagree here.
I like that any of my mounts can have water walking now thanks to mount equipment. I always hated the stupid looking (subjective) Water Striders and am happy with the compromise they came to with this.
Actually there is. It would force people to continue using the Water Strider mounts specifically for water walking situations and then use different mount equipment for everything else. The Water Striders were the only naturally Water Walking mounts in the game.
By having both Mount Equipment and innate Water Walking on the Striders you create a situation in which players will be pigeon holed into having to use the Striders for any water walking situation and different mount equipment instead.
While I get that you don’t like the change, they absolutely could not have coexisted. This solved the problem that players like myself had where we felt forced to use a very ugly mount situationally because its utility was extremely powerful pre-flying each expansion.
Feel lucky they didn’t just do what they almost did in Legion. They almost just removed the Water Walking aspect without giving any alternative such as Mount Equipment.
If it was done smartly, they could have. Like they could have made mount equipment only work on one mount or mount family (horse, wolf, kodo, etc) so you could have a water walking wolf, or whatever, a kodo with anti-daze, etc. Even if they removed the innate, ones like me could still use the shoes on just the striders and then adjust other mounts to suit different needs.
So just because a few players could not control themselves or deal with being sub par in some aspects, everyone has to suffer? There were ways it could have worked, yet players like you would not take anything but removal of something that made the mount unique even if you could get the ability on a different mount while leaving something like the strider alone.
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We had LOADS of suggestions, including barring the striders from benefiting from the mount equipment (not unlike the herbing mount). But nope! Blizzard knows best and, while vomiting some excuse about how all they ever see are water striders (do refer back to the herb mounts), nerfed them anyway.
Water walking pots are readily available by any alchemist willing to put in the insignificant effort to get the recipe, and works on all mounts. They didn’t give us anything we didn’t already have, at best they saved us a bag slot (though not in all cases, as the slot on my non-tanks that was previously taken up by the anti daze consumable is now instead taken up by water walking pots on classes missing that ability - i.e. my mage still has the barding slot filled in her bag, just by water walking pots now).
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They could have given those of you who wanted to “water walk” on every mount the ability to use equipment without breaking the basic functionality of the Waterstriders. Both could have coexisted. There was zero reason for them to “devolve”. And yes, subjective is correct. I think they are cute.
That’s nonsense. None of the other equipment is worth a crap anyway. And anyone who wanted to use different mounts to water walk would have. Blizz would actually have to be creative and make something folks would use, and they did not, nor will they ever.
They absolutely could have coexisted.
Additionally, we still have potions that do the same thing that completely negate what you’re saying, as well as many classes who can water walk as well. Why were those things not “broken” or removed also? Because they didn’t need to be since no one would have been “pigeonholed” into anything.
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they cry babies who said it was to hard to get the mount is why they took it away
I never had the strider mount, and never missed it, but if they just removed flying from all mounts because you could buy equipment to make any mount able to fly I would see it as dumb and expect complaints from players.
If the issue is a matter of esthetics, they could have simply added more mounts, with whatever requirements to get them, that offered fast transport over water. They added a ship as a mount, that model certainly could have been made to move over water, I have a turtle mount, isn’t there a porpoise mount?
I’m sorry, IMO the decision was dumb.
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Huh? My Shaman main can walk on water, mounted or not, just like always.
Never tried with that goofy bug mount though.
The change is great now I don’t need the dumb bug to walk on water
yea but 1 i believe gives + ground speed which is extremely useful prior to PF part 1 which gives that. water walking is always useful only shamans and DK’s can water walk mounted otherwise and shamans will dismount on 1 hit. parachute one is just useful from getting to point A to B faster at heights.
idk if it will be viable though come SL they might put a level cap on it like they did before with the inscription tomes making it useless and then you got people stock piling on them XD
Psst. You never did.
https://www.wowhead.com/spell=62410/elixir-of-water-walking
Edit; Last I checked, this won’t even dismount you. Taking damage breaks it, but it broke the bug, too. That required remounting, this just requires another potion.
I already have way too many potions/stuff in my bags, light foot, invisibility, healing, flask, all the random pvp ones, food for aoe and food for st, rune of augment, other gear sets and trinkets, net ect. Over half of my bags is full of stuff I actually use quite often.
But besides my bag problem I did not know that, interesting. Wonder how many others didn’t know about it.
Maybe, but for me it will depend on how much water there is to move across. In zones like Nazmir, for instance, no amount of ground speed increase would ever be better than not sinking (thus slowing down significantly) while moving across the zone which is full of water.
Besides that, the player made equipment is ridiculously expensive so it would never be worth changing out multiple times, at least not for me. Not worth it for ~5-6 weeks anyway.
Of course, that’s just me so it may very well be worth it for a ton of other people. Just not something I’d worry about.