Water Strider Discussion

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4990

It not impractical for those who use the potions currently.

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4991

What some people don’t want to understand is that today it’s the water strider. Next time it could be 2 seaters, or transmog/auction mounts, or flying. Then what?

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4992

I don’t think you know what the word means.

4993

Do you know what opinion means? Others don’t find using the potions over the mount impractical. They do what they want. Others don’t mind the mount, like me, so we use it.

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4994

So because someone doesn’t want to keep a stack of potions on them, I have to have my water walking mount (that was made specifically to walk on water) lose it’s innate ability? Why is someone’s need to not have potions greater than my need to keep what I have had for years already?

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4995

That’s not what I’m talking about.

They’re claiming that water striders are just as practical as water walking potions. They aren’t.

Would you rather have an infinite usage flask or would you rather need to buy them every time you drank one?

Would you rather use a slowfall consumable or cast it as a spell?

4996

I already have the equivalent of an infinite usage flask. It’s called a water strider. It was made to walk on water. It’s working as intended.

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4997

That doesn’t mean that you’re being practical. Practical doesn’t mean better across the board for you personally.

4998

I will have to buy one every time I want to change from water walking to another piece of equipment to fit that zone or situation and then buy another one to switch back to water walking, and then buy another one when I need to switch again, and on and on and on.

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4999

By whose definition of practicality?

Edit: Why do you need infinite water walking anyway? It’s an on-use thing. Which potions can provide.

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5000

This is my point.

You would rather have an infinite usage flask for water walking, aka a water strider, than a stack of flasks. This is why people choose it.

5001

It’s not practical for a mount that was created to walk on the water to actually walk on the water without having to put a piece of equipment on it?

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5002

That’s not an issue of practicality, it’s an issue of immersion in which case you can then suggest that your immersion has been disrupted.

5003

I don’t want an infinite use flask! I want my mount to do what it’s supposed to do. It’s supposed to walk on water. That’s it. That’s what I want. I don’t want it to do anything else. But that’s getting taken away unless I want to use equipment to make it happen.

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5004

By the definition of what’s easiest, what’s the least amount of time and effort that must be put forth to achieve XYZ. Many people play by this method.

5005

This changed with patch 8.1.5. While they couldn’t put the portal to COT back in right away, they were able to make it so you can have all 50 characters on one realm.

5006

Alright.

:l

It’s like I’m talking to a sheet of cellophane.

5007

No. It’s like we have differing opinions and we are sharing them with one another. But okay.

5008

Believe me, I am sure the feeling is mutual.

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5009

That’s on the people who use that method. But even so, others disagree with you and see no difference in practicality.

But this conversation is boring. I think the real question is, do you care whether or not the water strider retains its ability to water walk and be treated like the Sky Golem? If so, why do you care what other people do if they use the water strider that they earned even with the mount equipment option (bugs excluded) in the game? How does that affect you?