So People Want The Water Strider To Be Restricted?

[Hamstar-draktharon (Hamstar)]

Because they far outnumber water striders everywhere except ON ACTUAL WATER.

No they don’t. We already had a blue say they were monitoring it and don’t see it as a problem

[Autai-wyrmrest-accord]

Mount equipment per mount and account wide when?

[Kirela-arygos (Kirela)]

I am downloading the PTR right now for the record to go see if the barding works on Mechagon. Goblin gliders are still there, I dunno about water walking pots and if they will work, but I will be sure to transfer a character with those pots and check.

The issue is that even if they leave stuff alone for right now, I honestly am worried about the next expansion. Why on Azeroth would they add these equipment items and then add craftables that will override them? It simply doesn’t make sense. If they didn’t care then why not let us have equipment for all 3 at once?

[Mokrawr-area-52 (Mokrawr)]

Mount equipment per mount and account wide when?

That would actually be awesome and give players too much control, so it will never happen.

[Autai-wyrmrest-accord]

Mount equipment per mount and account wide when?

That would actually be awesome and give players too much control, so it will never happen.

Curses! Blizzards weakness

[Hardwire-velen (Hardwire)]

Why on Azeroth would they add these equipment items and then add craftables that will override them? It simply doesn’t make sense.

One of many concerns. It would have made more sense to create a current water walking potion with a 2 hour duration, like the barding and stirrups, rather than this single-slot mount equipment, if they really just wanted to give players cosmetic choice in their mounts.

[Shimy-khadgar]

A water strider that can’t stride across water… modern WoW in a nutshell.

[Drougen-emerald-dream (Drougen)]

Because they and people are idiots that think everything should be the same?

As far as mounts go, they should. Could you imagine if they introduced a mount that goes 10% faster than all the other mounts? Literally nobody would use anything else. I think that’s good, mounts SHOULD all be the same aside from flying & ground as far as actual advantages go.

that “grind” can easily be done during MoP Timewalking if it was not done before and doing it during that time can make it done with in 1 day if one pushes but easily done in the week if one is more casual.

And now it will be done to get water walking for all mounts, problem? Water walkers still get to be special.

Some people LIKE having different mounts for different things, like I only use my waterstrider when I KNOW I’ll be crossing deep water, for pure land I’ll use my moterbike or another mount.

Perfect, use the water walking mount equipment. You can now use your waterstrider for that same purpose and your moterbike for driving on land.

And by doing it this way, they are FORCING those of us that like to have different mounts, or set ups, for different jobs to consistently change gear or carry at least 1 of each equipment at all times so we can switch on the fly.

All the advantages from mount equipment are already available in the game, though. They’re not game breaking or anything. None of them give you +10% mount speed. Nobodies forcing you to use them.

What quite a few of us would be happy with would be the strider keeping its water walking

What quite a few of us would be happy with would be the strider keeping its water walking, even if they keep the gear in for other mounts, and make it so it does not benefit from other gear

So literally what Blizzards trying to get away from with this change, making it so you don’t have to have a mount for water walking or a mount for less fall damage etc. and allowing people to use whatever mounts they want. Forcing the waterstrider to ONLY have water walking ruins the mount for other people. What about the people who want their water strider to not be dazed? They won’t get that option because…? Stubborn people think it should be forced to ONLY have water walking equipment? That’s dumb.

make the gear apply on a per mount basis instead of per character so even if they remove waterwalking from the stider we can just apply it again and still have whatever gear we want on the other mounts.

Finally, something that actually makes sense. I’d agree with this 100%

Another option I have seen is 2 mount equipment slots, if per mount those with special abilities like the strider already have one filled.

I don’t see the point in limiting the mounts abilities. If anything that would make it less of an incentive to even get.

and we should not be forced to consistently change gear just because we are doing content where our current gear is useless.

So you’d rather have only one water walking mount in the game vs. allowing any of your mounts to be able to water walk? I don’t understand the logic there. Nobodies forcing you to change gear. I think people are over reacting. It’s not like they’re adding in and building the world around mount gear and going to force people to change from area to area.

At the cost of having something else on other mounts. Why can’t Blizzard at least make it so the gear is applied to mounts so one can have a mount with water walking, one with anti-daze and so forth?

I dunno, but I think that’s a heck of a lot better question / suggestion than “waterstrider should be FORCED to ONLY have water walking!”

[Warpstone-norgannon (Warpstone)]

You shouldn’t be forced to use water strider every time you want to walk across water.

You were never forced to use the water strider for water walking. Every, yes every mount in this game could always walk on water. You just had to use water walking potions. Which is all we used before MoP, then blizzard gave us the opportunity to earn a mount that could walk on water, so we would not have to carry potions with us all the time. WE are now taking that step back to having to carry something with us again so we can make all our mounts do 1 of 3 things, And will cost us to switch every time.

[Drougen-emerald-dream (Drougen)]

You just had to use water walking potions.

And there’s the kicker. Fill your bag up with potions so you can walk on water OR just use a mount that has it indefinitely…what a HARD choice to make.

WE are now taking that step back to having to carry something with us again so we can make all our mounts do 1 of 3 things, And will cost us to switch every time.

Things that you already pointed out, aren’t necessary or can be done by other means. Problem?

[Illoramoan-grizzly-hills]

I have never been to BFA and probably never will, my friends I was playing with have quit and all that’s left is a mogger at low levels. I hit Argus long after BFA started, with a friend who hadn’t left quite yet, but now that he’s gone I have no desire to visit a zone I can’t even fly in and has enemies every few feet. I might visit BFA alone once flying is possible, but that’s only a maybe.

[Illoramoan-grizzly-hills]

And now we can fill our bags with items to either waterwalk, no-daze, or slowfall! Expensive items. This is better?

[Warpstone-norgannon (Warpstone)]

Fill your bag up with potions so you can walk on water

Already stocking up on them, i just hope Blizzard does not remove them from the game to force us to use this new system.

[Ruddypiper-sargeras (Ruddypiper)]

No they don’t. We already had a blue say they were monitoring it and don’t see it as a problem

You must be new here to believe everything you see in Blue text.

Of course the Sky Golem isn’t a problem because it doesn’t allow players to bypass content.

Flying past mobs bypasses content.

Running across the bay in Boralas instead of around the entire zone bypasses tons of “content”.

But to my initial point: Blizzard said “flying is coming via an epic quest chain”, then “it’s coming in a patch”, then “it’s coming in the next patch”.

All before announcing via an obscure website interview late on a Friday on Memorial Day weekend that “there would be no more flying in current content ever.”

[Drougen-emerald-dream (Drougen)]

I have never been to BFA and probably never will, my friends I was playing with have quit and all that’s left is a mogger at low levels. I hit Argus long after BFA started, with a friend who hadn’t left quite yet, but now that he’s gone I have no desire to visit a zone I can’t even fly in and has enemies every few feet. I might visit BFA alone once flying is possible, but that’s only a maybe.

What I’m getting from this… “I barely play this game at all and don’t even have a max level character, but my opinion on how the game should work is completely valid!”

[Illoramoan-grizzly-hills]

Get what you want. All of Blizzard’s nerfs are landing squarely on me and my limited time to play and the benefits, such as they are, will be going to Blizzard’s preferred customers. My money isn’t as good as theirs, and they won’t have it. I didn’t buy the piggie though I wanted it, and I’ll buy no more mounts or pets from the store. My gametime ends in less than three weeks and I have no drive to play more than the free to 20.

[Ruddypiper-sargeras (Ruddypiper)]

“I barely play this game at all and don’t even have a max level character, but my opinion on how the game should work is completely valid!”

You realize that there are 7 expansions worth of content predating BFA right?

[Antiman-thrall (Antiman)]

So you’d rather have only one water walking mount in the game vs. allowing any of your mounts to be able to water walk?

Actually, I’d want people to be able to choose which mount they want with each ability. Keeping water walking on the strider, for me, would just free up the ability to go without that gear unless I want another mount to have water walking.

Perfect, use the water walking mount equipment. You can now use your waterstrider for that same purpose and your moterbike for driving on land.

not so fast, on my hunter I do the same but since she can be dazed I’d want anti-daze gear on her mounts, I then know I have to cross water instead of “oh, I’ll just switch to strider” it is “oh, I have to change gear to allow water walking and then change back once I am back on land”,

[Drougen-emerald-dream (Drougen)]

You realize that there are 7 expansions worth of content predating BFA right?

Yup, which you can go through in what…a week? Or was that leveling nerf still not enough? Even a new player can get to max in less than a month.

[Illoramoan-grizzly-hills]

Not in the time I have to play. Then there’s nerfs like these, when I find posting on the forums to be more fun than the game that’s held me in thrall for over a decade.