Water Strider Discussion

[Warpstone-norgannon (Warpstone)]

Patch 9.0 notes will state:

• We’re having trouble adapting the Mount Equipment slots to the new exciting content in Battle for Subscribers . As such we’ve removed the mount equipment slot. We’'ve talked to Nat and and he assures us that the water strider mounts or the equipment slot will be available again at a later date.

Blizzard religion people: “Relax guys it’ll be fixed in 9.1…”

Round and round we go!

I expect this to happen. Will be surprised if it does not. This is the end game for the mount abilities.

[Jops-zuljin]

I wasn’t aware that the quest to get 5 TW Dungeons has its raid quality loot removed. My bad.

5 TW dungeon week gets me one BoD(normal) loot item.
5 Mythic(0) dungeon week gets me one BoD(Heroic) loot item.

Last expansion seemed to have some special rule where the level of the reward chest was determined by how far you got on the -previous- raid bosses, but that doesn’t seem to be the case now.

[Drug-bleeding-hollow]

you said 5 people sneaking up on you without you knowing it was overpowered, which equates to your hivemend allegory
your own argument can be used against you by saying EVERYONE can have one yes, not EVERYONE is a rogue
not EVERYONE likes rep farming, and potions are temporary, so this welcome change is much needed to nerf water striders and give the rest of the playerbase the ability to permanently waterwalk with another mount
rep farming for a superior advantage is ludicrous

[Drug-bleeding-hollow]

by that time the weapon from mythic jaina will be as useless as a green item

[Kiwì-dentarg (Kiwì)]

others shouldn’t get an advantage over me in a part of the game that I enjoy just because I won’t do a part of the game I don’t enjoy, what’s not getting through to you?

So, I dislike PVP and PVP’rs should not have an advantage over me. So they should remove the percentage bonus you get when in warmode. They should also remove conquest/honor system because that gives them an advantage over me as well.

They should also remove all past PVP transmog because people who don’t PVP can’t get it, so that gives PVP’rs an advantage in Trial of Style.

Should I go on?

[Elestial-moonrunner (Elestial)]

I absolutely don’t care that water walking can be duplicated by equipment. It still means I have to spend gold to get something on my alts that they already had for free. And the fact that I earned this mount for a particular reason.

They could leave the strider as is. water walking with NO equipment slot is the way to go. Just leave it be.

[Drug-bleeding-hollow]

that last comment is exactly how I feel about the people complaining about water strider
I don’t agree with the achievements requiring you to pvp but keep queueing so I can get some free honor

[Drug-bleeding-hollow]

yes because that requires multitudes more than the strider does…

[Drug-bleeding-hollow]

well since I’ll be chasing down players, and can buy the glider with marks of honor now, it’ll probably be the water walking

[Drug-bleeding-hollow]

you’ve been on the tactic of arguing with sarcasm for the past 50 posts, when you haven’t done a single boss in BoD nor a rated game this season and clearly don’t collect things so I have no idea why you are even a voice in the midst of changing things in this game

[Elenedhel-moon-guard]

Sits calmly and sips tea while watching the show
According to profile, this isn’t even a human lock but a dark iron rogue.
Interesting.
Flips hair

[Jops-zuljin]

your loyalty earned you 2450 achievement points it seems

Shush. Obviously, according to achievement point score, I’m nearly 3x more loyal to Warcraft than you are. Catch up, then I’ll take you seriously.

[Drug-bleeding-hollow]

yeah you should, like removing transmogrification(which I don’t even use) because it is useless imo
real great argument there

[Brahmina-khadgar (Brahmina)]

So no water walking now unless you step into the water from an area level with it. No regaining water walking while still in the water after being attacked. This is a significant nerf.

I hope this is actually a bug, because nerfing water walking in such a way is a hideously underhanded thing to do. I think 90% of the time I use water walking–whether through a mount, a potion, or an ability (such the shaman spell)–I apply it after I’m in the water.

Edit: Oh, yeah. Then there’s the underlight angler. I frequently turn into fish form to swim to another pool, then pop out and stand on the water to fish. They damn well better not have screwed that up.

[Elenedhel-moon-guard]

It also has done NO current content.
Fascinating.
Flips hair, while arching an eyebrow and sipping tea

[Ruddypiper-sargeras (Ruddypiper)]

Sits calmly and sips tea while watching the show

Just report for spam or troll and move along.

[Drug-bleeding-hollow]

my warlock is on Emerald Dream now and I haven’t updated the forums stuff

[Elenedhel-moon-guard]

I should but I so seldom take my own good advice.

[Drug-bleeding-hollow]

and according to pvp rating I’m a thousand times more likely to stomp you in the dirt

[Blays-bloodhoof]

you’ve been on the tactic of arguing with sarcasm for the past 50 posts, when you haven’t done a single boss in BoD nor a rated game this season and clearly don’t collect things so I have no idea why you are even a voice in the midst of changing things in this game

So arguing from authority as it relates to current content, but want to bypass old content, because water striders relate to BoD bosses and rated PVP and collections.

Got it. Have any other brain-buster arguments for destroying the water strider function, or have we seen your best shot?