If barding still exists, that won’t be any different, but you have a point, I was clumsy in my phrasing.
If I’m still playing, I guess none of my equipment slots will be filled.
Yeah!
That’s it!
NOBODY USE THE EQUIPMENT SLOTS!
THAT’LL SHOW 'EM!
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Did they describe the price they expect for people who have the strider? 1g, 20g, 100g?
that was the described price for strider owners.
I don’t think they ever gave a specific number, they just said it would be “affordable.”
Thank you for jumping into the thread!
I’d like to start by pointing out that water walking isn’t a defining characteristic of either shaman or DK, it’s just one of the utilities they bring to a group. And unlike the water strider, their utility remains more powerful because it can be used in combat and in no-mount areas.
If the water strider still seems “too powerful” then perhaps change it to be slower on land, or, like the submersed mounts, make only useable on water?
The Water Striders are named for what they do. They should not need “inflatable mount shoes” to be what they are supposed to be.
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If there’s at least 1x 2000g emissary per week, then 2000g becomes an affordable cost.
This is for the crafted one from what I understand, not the BoA one from Anglers/Nat Pagle. And to be honest, for the crafted one, 1000g sounds incredibly cheap to me, considering it lets you circumvent the rep grind.
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No. They did not.
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When asked why they don’t want to leave the water strider as is and simply make it exempt from mount equipment, this was the answer:
“If [they] leave it with that ability there then it’s more in the line of getting everything and less of making a choice for what you want.”
If they don’t want one character to have different mounts with different abilities, it’s not a wild leap in logic that they might not want one mount to have more than one ability. He straight up said that they want us to have to make a choice, not get everything.
Bardings and stirrups are already only usable in BfA and will be made inactive next expansion. I’m betting we don’t get replacements.
Perhaps I’m overly cynical, but there’s been far too much precedent of Blizzard taking away convenient travel options and not nearly enough of them actually making travel more efficient.
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And since mount equipment duplicates the effect of one of those items, it’s relevant, because Blizzard is going to want folks to utilize this new system that they’re spending resources to implement. If bardings stay in the game, folks will have the option to use those rather than Blizzard’s handy dandy new system. We also won’t have to make a choice between water walking and anti daze, and Blizzard wants us to have to make a choice rather than allowing us to get everything.
I earned the Water Strider, but I fully respect what Blizz is trying to do here, and I thank you guys. Yeah, I spent time (weeks) getting the Water Strider. Know what else I do though? Every single alt I make, the first mount to go on the bars is that mount. I WANT to use others, but it’s so inefficient that it’s not worth it.
On the top of that subject though, as this is the start of allowing any mount have that ability… How about the Sky Golems herb gathering? Will there be one for mining? Will it/they be allowed on other mounts as well?
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Actually, with the items being profession made, it will be realm AH specific, and 1000G would be unheard of as a starting price, unless Blizzard somehow caps it.
More like 20K-25k at least.
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Great, add the equipment slots for mounts that don’t have an inherent “ability”. Adding things is great, subtracting not so much…when it’s unnecessary.
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Maybe I’m not expressing it properly. The cost is irrelevant to me. What matters is the fact that it WILL cost us. We already paid for the strider, why do we have to pay again? That’s my whole issue with this thing is that it devalues the effort we put into earning the mount to begin with. I did the dailies and built my rep up as early in Mists as I could so I could get this mount because of its unique ability. And then I did it again in the Garrison because I wanted the red one.
Speaking of the red one, what happens to people who have that mount and not the Anglers’ one? Are they just screwed? Do they even get the ability to buy the inflatable shoes for a discount, or will they need to go and grind up their Anglers’ rep too? It causes all kinds of unnecessary problems.
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Because Blizzard – in their infinite[ly misguided] wisdom – sees these kinds of choices as the kind of choices players want. Look! We are giving you choices that will have a meaningful impact on the way you play the game. Doesn’t matter that they’re choices nobody asked for, and only work to make players’ game time more complicated … it’s a choice nonetheless.
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So as I said, Chicken Little.
Even if that does come true, I’d personally gladly take having a permanent equipment slot that covers one of those things over being able to use them all and having to reapply it every 2/6 hours or when I die. Of course that’s probably because I don’t even use the stirrups/barding/hoofplates as is. Travel is just too convenient/easy to justify bothering with them for me.
If you feel differently, that’s understandable.
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You do know that there is an extremely cheap to make consumable item that does literally the exact same thing the water strider does…
…right?
Can you please explain to me how having a special ability mount that I grinded rep to get, is a “wrong choice”. It was MY choice to do the work, to get the mount, to ride the mount.
If I didn’t like the mount, there have always been other options.
It appears you are are now forcing me to have water-walking on all of my mounts (in order to keep the ability) because I made a “wrong choice” back in MOP.
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The “wrong choice” is using any OTHER mount. They don’t want a BiS mount.
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