So clearly we need to remove the abilities on both of these mounts too. I mean, it’s this the same scenario as the water walking ability?
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Weird, I was certain a Blizzard blue post indicated mount equipments was account wide, you got a free one due to water strider, and yes it works at level 20… so nothing changes for you if you are still in love with the water strider. This is much-to-do-about-nothing.
YES! It is a HUGE mistake not to do so. They just need to move them to equipments and let us use 2 or 3 equips at once. Seems really simple to me.
Your choice - I thought this thread was about Bliz taking your choice away, yet you got one right there. As I have already suggested, add water walking and never do another. Eventually Bliz will open up more slots because we will tell them we won’t bother otherwise. Power to the people!
Until you change to any other mount equipment.
Than its gone till you buy again.
I wonder why they don’t make it like glyphs.
You can put a particular buff on one mount and it stays there until you change it. That way people can decide to have their water strider stride water permanently.
Yes, you get ONE. And to change it to something else, it costs you gold. And to change it back to water walking, they charge you again. Equipment is a consumable, like a gem socket. You put something over it and the old one is destroyed. Again, I have water walking for free right now. All the time. No having to go buy a piece of equipment whenever I want to switch. And if you don’t think that down the line this is going to happen with flying, you’re kidding yourself.
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THere are solutions to this problem but Blizzard wants to change the strider, not just use a new setup. With all the other single use mounts, the strider is the only one getting changed.
Or OMG< they might even be able to make the slot per mount instead of account wide. Still gets what they SAY they want. Just doesnt give them what they actually want. The water strider gone.
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What?
You think they have a personal vendetta against the water strider?
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If the equipment was mount specific not account specific, this would be fantastic. But if you choose water walking, that’s all you get on all of your mounts.
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I actually would prefer if it were per mount anyway.
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Yes they do. It happened in WoD. They wer eforced to back off. Check your history.
Knowledge is power.
This is a childish tirade and nothing more.
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I see…
Oh gosh, hang on. Here you go. You dropped this tinfoil hat.
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False. You get ONE free for the characters that are exalted with the Anglers. ANGLERS only, mind you. The rep in WOD for the red strider does not count.
I explicitly stated alts because your alts will be affected by this change by having to have your exalted character fly to Nat Pagel in MOP to buy it and then send it to every alt where you want water walking. It’s a hassle and a loss of QOL for alts. You lose something with this change. I can already get what I need FOR FREE on ALL characters.
Yes.
" Because of the dominance of Water Strider, they are removing its ability to walk on water"
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I think you’re reading this wrong.
They don’t have a personal issue with the water strider, they just want to encourage people to use different mounts.
I’m a big girl. I can choose what mount I want to use without them taking away the ability for water walking mount to walk on water.
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Why would you change to other mount equipment? You currently don’t have any other mount equipment that conflicts with the strider correct?
This is what we need it to be, to be honest. The current form of implementation is weak. If it was per mount, the strider could have water walking as a default for every one of your characters and you could choose water walking for another mount of your choice.
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From what’s being said, the new zones are heavily populated with mobs and dazing is a big issue. It stands to reason that a lot of people are going to want to use anti-daze equipment in those areas. But when they go back to other areas, they will want to be able to water walk again and it’s going to cost them to do it, whereas now we have that ability for free.
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That’s not how choice works in video games and especially not in MMOs.
It isn’t about a lack of willpower, it’s about gamers choosing practicality over appearance which has led to a huge portion of people riding only spider bugs instead of what they find visually appealing because they value practicality over appearance.
Blizzard wants to give people the option to be practical and ride what they want.
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Based on what I am hearing about the PTR, dazing is becoming a major issue. If I am not in Blood spec, I might need to anti-daze.
Or I could just stay a Blood DK and get (as I stated above):
Anti-daze
water walking
faster mount speed
and I can use a 2 person mount
and still add a glider in the mount equipment spot.
Tell me again how the strider is more overpowered than having all of these at the same time?
Oh yeah, its not. I am arguing over principle, not simply whats best for me…
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