Because they already tried that and people flipped out. This is a more subtle way to get there.
Make people believe they get to keep water walking and then pull the plug on the entire system next expansion-- or make it part of Pathfinder to unlock these equipment slots.
The sky golem can’t benefit from equipment. Why can’t the water strider keep its ability and be the same way?
Why do class perks, potions and barding get to stick around so people can double up on effects, while someone else who earned the strider can’t even use it for its intended ability if they choose another piece of equipment?
And here’s the key question: Why are more abilities being taken out of this game when they could have easily added more options for water walking mounts and mounts that could glide and not be dazed?
Yeah so instead of just removing it from 2 mounts they created an entire system just to remove it later?
Also lol at “easy create more mounts”.
Because you have been explained this over and over. The entire system exists because the water walking mounts were over used and made the 400+ other mounts irrelevant in zones with water. Leaving it alone would mean that would not change.
So you admit it is pre-outrage where you are believing they are adding this system just to remove water walking from two mounts later instead of just going ahead and removing it from the two mounts?
It seems a fairly dumb issue, imo. Either someone griped about having to grind rep for the water striders in the first place, or someone griped they didn’t like the mount for their transmog or something.
I’m actually a little miffed about this one-equipment slot, versus actually being tied to the mount itself. So, if you want ANY water walking mounts, you’re going to have to tie up that slot, and not be able to use the anti-dazing or parachute. That’s really rather pointless, and defeats the point of having worked to get the striders in the first place.
Tons of other things Blizzard could be balancing or fixing, but this is what they’re spending their effort on. >.>
They sure can. Glyphs have slowly but surely been removed. The water walking one was taken off of us.
Please explain why it’s so difficult to make certain classes of mounts have different perks. Elekk and dragons unable to be dazed. Water striders, cranes and unicorns able to walk across water. Phoenix mounts able to glide. Those are just some examples.
Hunter pets have different class abilities. Mounts can too.
Hyperbole. They were never irrelevant. And why is the sky golem any different? Doesn’t it make other mounts irrelevant, too? Yet it gets to keep its ability?
Instead of taking things off of us, they can add more options to the mounts themselves, instead of adding a system that removes a base ability, while leaving another mount alone and not even remotely addressing all of the other class, potion, etc perks that exist.
And they could just remove it w/o creating the system. This is pre-outrage.
You don’t need to be explained why it would be more difficult to start adding more special abilities to mounts or create more mounts. You know that.
It is not hyperbole. That was the reason that Blizzard gave and they have the data. The entire reason why this system is coming into place is because of the water strider. I mean did you ever read their info?
and it has been explained to you over and over, it has the exact same functionality with the free water walking equipment. It has water walking now and it will have water walking after.
So if everyone uses the Water Strider all the time, for everything, because of Water Walking alone, then how is making an entire new equipment system (that will just lead to everyone using Water Walking on everything) an improvement over simply making a wider variety of water walking mounts using mounts in game that actually should already walk on water or swim at mount speed?
If it’s currently so much more powerful than no daze, slow fall, or gathering then that isn’t going to change with this system unless the need to avoid daze, slow fall, or gather while mounted becomes astronomically greater in 8.3 and beyond.
IF you CHOOSE to use other equipment in a new system. If you use the free default equipment it is 100% the same as it is right now. If you could pay 40g and change the water strider to loose water walking and gain no daze, is that a nerf?
You are calling a new system that is only coming out because of the water strider a nerf because it allows you to now choose to get water walking for all mounts or get something else.
No one is losing anything. The strider still waterwalks. Now other mounts will also. There is no losing here, except for people who think thee strider is special. It isn’t anymore and I am fine with it. I would rather waterwalk on something other than a big bug. My gnome is afraid of bugs!
If you could pay 40g to have just the water strider switch between water walking and no daze has anything been taken away from it? You are gaining, not loosing.
How is it having the exact same function losing anything? How is ALL of your mounts also getting that ability subpar? How is now getting a choice between options a nerf? Logic is hard am I right?