This is one of those instances where we need to look at what Blizzard is actually doing, and not what they say. If they want us to have more variety and not feel “forced” to use the water strider, why not add a water walking passive to more mounts? If this is about giving us options, why not allow us to designate different mounts with different abilities?
There have been many, many suggestions made on these forums for a better system, and I don’t actually think the devs are too stupid to have thought of many of the same ideas. That they’re implementing this “improvement” in the most restrictive and easily removed way possible implies that their actual goal is not to “give us more choices”. It’s to implement a system that looks good on the surface, but which they can alter, limit, or remove at will.
The way it’s implemented I’m not happy about it. Choosing between waterwalking and not being dazed shouldn’t be a choice at all.
Here are a few ideas:
give waterwalking back to the waterstrider and allow other mounts to use equipment
allow mounts to have 2 equipment slots
every mount has an equipment slot instead of per character allowing you to have waterwalking on some mounts and the equipment to not be dazed on other mounts
If any of those happened then I’d be fine with the change, but if I can’t have both waterwalking and anti-daze equipment on the same toon then I am not happy at all.
It might not be an issue for DKs (as long as the devs don’t prune path of frost), but I spend a lot of time on my other toons (esp. my warrior) without path of frost and it feels like a big nerf for most of my other toons.
I wish I could like this more than once. It’s concerning not just that it has been implemented this way, but the reason why it has been, because clearly there are plenty of ways that it could have been implemented to actually provide a much wider range of player choice.
You did pay, when you purchased the mount after spending the time grinding the rep for it. And now they see it as a huge gift to give you one set of consumable shoes to make up for that time and expense.
This would not surprise me in the least. I fear they are going to turn this stuff into micro-transactions, after all, I am sure they get pressured to add them.
So does this mean that Each character that wants to use this waterwalking mount equipment ability must have the Anglers Rep? Because the waterstrider was Acct. Wide… Which means All our alts probably don’t have the Anglers rep that we needed to originally get this water strider when it went acct. wide. Or can this equip be bought and sent to an alt for use? or is it soulbound when purchased?
don’t mind them putting new stuff in, don’t mind paying so my other mounts can water walk, etc.
But I’ll be hades po’d if they take the water walking off the strider… that was a heck of a grind and I’m tired of grinding for this stupid game, and now all those “rewards” for all the grinds we do, we are just gonna get slapped in the face later?
crass move Blizz and shame on you. You really are sucking what little fun is left in this game. is this another one of those “you think you do but you don’t” things?
leave our Striders alone. just like flying and pathfinder, this is a stupid move. You really want your playerbase to hate you I think.
This is the feeling I’m getting. They won’t call it a micro-transaction. They will just point out you can always buy tokens if you need gold to buy in-game items.
Thank you for that answer Truthspeaker. I hope your Right… It is very disappointing to Play this game since Vanilla, (how long was that? Hmmm 15 yrs.) And I am getting a little tired of having to Earn and Re-Earn things… I know the Water Strider only had to be earned on 1 of my alts, But I have a lot of Other Alts (14 up to 120) on Horde & Alliance, that will be very disappointed if purchasing this item on 1 alt does not let me mail to my other Alts, Or Put in My Private Guild Banks?
I hear you. Even with being able to mail the item to alts, I still see it as a step backwards.
Here’s the blue post for extra reassurance.
Hitting level 100 on one character will unlock this system. Once unlocked, the system will be available to all characters, and the equipment pieces themselves will require level 20. If your goal is to have waterwalking while leveling, you can just enable the waterwalking Mount Equipment (there will be one available via Anglers reputation that will be bind-on-account), and it’ll work exactly as before, with the benefit of making all of that character’s mounts walk on water.
Zandalari Troll racial seems to behave identical to gliders, just with different graphics. I’ve lept from The Great Seal and soared down to the docks on both enough times that I can’t tell if there’s any difference.
Likewise Boomkin ‘flap’ feels like it’s somewhere between priest ‘levitate’ and mage ‘feather fall’. (Mages seem to jump higher while theirs is active. Priests, don’t feel as bouncy on land, but seem to have an easier time crossing water.)
Blizzard then: Open world! Pay your sub anfd play play PLAY! Where you want! How you want!
Instances, quests, professions and tons more content!
Have fun!\
Blizzard today: ‘‘Hey NERD! Nice bookbag! Want it back? Then pay up.’’
Not clear yet. I saw mention that no-daze equipment would be crafted by blacksmiths.
I presume that means: slow-fall would be a tailoring pattern, and inflatable mount shoes would -likely- be a leather-working pattern.
IIRC, there was a suggestion that the discount rate for angler rep people buying boots was likely going to be around 1000g. The crafted versions will likely have crafting requirements that drive their price up significantly higher.
There already is a temporary Brewfest mount. The hops items transform your mount into the Brewfest mounts and is only during Brewfest. Those players who wish to keep it get to roll the dice and try to earn the permanent mount to be used year round.
Here’s something else Blizzard will never get back; bragging rights to ‘biggest and best’, as well subs.
Don’t believe me? go look at FFXIV homepage, where they openly post, large and bold, how many they got.
Golly whered they all come from?
And they aren’t the only ones, either; Blizzard has gone from the big noise on the block to a laughingstock.