I feel like that’s going to be higher come live.
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Yeah I miss the days where I could focus on playing the game instead of figthing a dev team with their bad ideas. ![:frowning:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/frowning.png?v=6" ":frowning:")
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I have a question regarding these mount changes in 8.2. Currently I use my Water Strider and use the Monel-Hardened Stirrups consumable to be able to do both. Will this still be possible in 8.2 or will we have to choose between water walking and being able to interact while mounted?
Since to water walk in 8.2 we will need to equip Water Boots which take up a Mount Equipment slot, will the ability to interact while mounted require a separate item in the Mount Equipment Slot? Which means we can only do one or the other but not both together?
That’s a known bug on the PTR, the plan is for alts level 20 and above to be able to use the equipment.
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I wouldn’t be surprised; they often put lower prices in PTR to encourage the testing of new items. I also wouldn’t be surprised if it’s cheap on the PTR solely to quiet down complaints, since many have said their fine with paying so long as it’s cheap enough.
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Thanks for the reply.
Any ideas about me being able to mail one to an alt after using it?
That is what I’d hope for, but then I wasn’t able to repeat that on another character, because it removed the one I used from the stack I had.
Meh. It means you’re either mailing one item around to all your characters (think the BFA flightpoint should be toy item from pathfinder).
It was cheaper for me to buy it and send it to all my alts time investment wise than to buy it and pass it around once. This way I knew which toons actually had it and which didn’t.
It also means that we’re going to get bag slots filling up with mount equipment now, per character, when these items should really be toys so you only buy them once and can access them on every character easily.
Firstly, for players like me that’s 4000 gold to regain something we have already done a grind and paid 4000 gold for, and it will take a full day’s playing time just to purchase, mail and equip it for my 100 alts.
Secondly, you’re only seeing a sapling, not the forest behind it. The crafted equipment are predicted to cost 1000 gold. I remember crafted follower equipment being predicted to cost that too, and look what they ended up costing. Every time you switch to one of these you will end up switching back to water walking, if the strider is presently half as mandatory as Blizzard thinks it is.
To force us to constantly spend money changing equipment, all Blizzard has to do now is make sure next patch involves a need for anti-daze and parachutes to get through questing.
Their ultimate dream would be to also make herbing an equipment - as Metro is begging for - because that would definitely lead to continual equipment changes.
This is why the system is per character and not per mount, so we have to pay to change equipments for different circumstances and can no longer just change mounts. For a game involving much travelling, (now the wars on flying and portals makes sense,) this is this ultimate generator of (not so) miocro transactions, and will greatly increase token sales amongst the whales.
So other than a minor bug - everything seems to be functioning as described.
Can you please pass along the copious amounts of feedback requesting that the Strider maintain it’s ability and not benefit from the mount equipment?
It would greatly help us feel less cheated and swindled - and right now, I really don’t want to feel this way about this game. <3
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Also, an existing level 110 Kul Tiran class trial received a free one in the mail.
Never even mounted a water strider yet.
EDIT - And a copied over 112 alt received one free in the mail.
What’s the cut-off? 100? 110?
Answer- minimum 100, checking again.
Which will finally breathe some life into professions and give you something you previously did not have, yeah. In fact? No one had any of this prior to the mount equipment idea. So yeah, it should cost a bit, or you can farm up the materials to make it yourself.
Also, it should be per mount, so we can have a different mount per different task.
Oh please. We’ve needed professions to actually be useful for a while. Better get farming.
Time to be up front and honest with your customers. Are you taking away the water srider’s ability to walk on water as it is now and making us purchase equipment for it? Just answer it yes or no and deal with the praise or fall out.
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I already had all of this with crafted equipment that could stack for a reasonable price, and using it did not negate my strider’s water walking.
I expect you’d be grateful if I stole your shoes and made you pay each time you wanted to wear a different pair.
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They’ve already answered that with a “yes”, and with the implication that the same could happen to the herbing mount if too many people use it:
they have not answered it, they have only beat around the bush in answering it.
Why are they punishing players for using the things that THEY designed - for they reasons they designed them for!?!?
This is like a twilight zone episode.
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Leave the Water Strider mount alone! This mount was the result of a fairly long reputation grind and was an achievement. It should be treated the same way as Sky Golem and exempt from the new system. I don’t really feel the developers are being honest with their customers regarding this change. It seems more like a cloaked attempt to restrict the ability to walk on water with a mount. Also, it seems like developers are trying to appease new players who did not earn the mount by taking away ours. This is the latest in take away and resell abilties back to players scheme. This could very well be the last straw for me if this change is made.
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It is because the devs don’t interact with their customers and are out of touch, doing things in the game to justify their job.
The strider issue is a fair argument, I’ll give you that. For the 1k items in the other areas, though, I don’t see it as a problem because professions need life breathed into them, like I said. It’d be nice if more pets and mounts were added for them as well. Something…
But, anyway. I have strider and don’t really care myself. I see your side of things, though, and I think the solution would be to just offer shoes free or 1 copper for those with the strider, and then strider can keep walking but benefit from nothing else.
The major problem people bring up though is that no one will use shoes for anything if strider gets it automatically. Hence why I think per-mount would be better, because then:
- Strider could keep water walking, ok, cool, it gets it automatically.
- Free shoes from anglers or 40g, whatever, you could apply it to another mount.
- Other equipment can be used on your other mounts, bringing a diversity of moves and choices.
Therefore, the per-character restriction is, in my opinion, lackluster.
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I guess there will be a market for water walking potions again… They will still work, right?