We have a boat that doesn’t float. We have Hippos that should be able to swift swim immediately going into water and full mount speed immediately coming out of the water. Same goes for the various Turtles. We have Flying carpets that never touch the ground and move via magic. We have various winged mounts that at bare minimum should be able to hover over water in no fly zones instead of swim flying.
Instead of adding flavor, they are adding restrictions.
Their excuse has always been “we don’t want to take away from the uniqueness of the water strider.”
The uniqueness of a mount whose unique ability they dislike and have tried to remove in the past, only to face backlash.
The new mount equipment system feels like a diversion: remove the strider’s ability, give us a temporary solution that looks like an improvement, remove or time gate the equipment next expansion. They get the result they want, and decrease the backlash, just like pathfinder is a way to effectively remove flying from current content without actually removing flying.
hm… using this logic, then:
The tmog mount has an advantage over other mounts
Using your logic, shouldn’t the developers remove all of these mounts? After all, they are clearly used a lot more than the water-walking strider (especially those pesky druids).
Be careful what you wish for. Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior.
Yea whats that saying…Maybe Bush put it the best way…lol!
“There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.”
Subjectively. Because water walking potions, shamans and DKs exist to make water walking available to other mounts. You may dislike using the strider, but you’re not bound to it. So it’s subjective that you think it makes something worse.
There is no reason why the strider can’t keep its base functionality and be exempt from equipment like the golem. People still have a choice and we don’t have to pay for something we already worked for, and don’t have to worry about it being removed completely next expansion.
Not to mention, water walking potions, barding, shamans and DKs will be OP because all of that can take advantage of both equipment and other buffs.
So are we removing all of that, too?
They could just give us flying sooner. #problemsolved
The game has never been so “accessible” for players, hardcore and casual. When they implement changes that improve the quality of life people will always complain. It also has a lot to do with the age we live in - the age of outrage and being offended. You also have to consider that Blizzard will never, ever be able to satisfy absolutely everyone. I personally feel it’s a great change - but not everyone welcomes change.
At the end of the day this mount equipment stuff is fantastic for so many players and is more of a positive than a negative for the game experience as a whole. Anti daze gear!? Yes please! ![:cow:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/cow.png?v=6" ":cow:")
I wonder if it will effect druids’ travel form…
Well, the last two expansions have been water based islands.
And unless they plan on creating a new made up continent like Pandaria, chances are the next expansion will be an island as well.
That’s all we have left. Islands, until they create a new continent.
New expansion.
“Water striders, water striders wherewhere!”
Everyone who does not have a strider can use that equipment.
Everyone who has a strider and is sick of it can use that equipment.
Quite frankly I never use the daze or interact bardings because I don’t give a damn. It is easy to avoid being dazed. When I reach a puddle I can’t cross quickly on my own then I remount on my strider, move across, and remount on whatever I feel like.
The skyyyyy is fallllling!
Why don’t they just make some new mount models that can walk on water? Why not make boats that actually float? Why this ridiculous system where everyone can be a DK at will?
I’m trying very hard to keep the tinfoil in the kitchen drawer, I really am. Making more mounts with water walking would be the most logical step to avoid the “Water Striders are everywhere” comments I never see.
The problem with innate abilities on mounts, is putting limits or controls on the timing and availability of the ability. The water walking mount has the ability all the time, whereas the equipment can be limited by Blizzard to only allow it at 120, 130 or some achievement requirement. If they don’t want you to water walk while leveling 120-129, it’s probably easier to program that piece of mount equipment than to change the code of the mount each expansion.
Sorry for any RF interference I caused with my tinfoil, please resume your normal programming.
That’s just retarded on their part. They’re the ones putting all the water in the game. Where is it written that there must be so much water everywhere in a fantasy game? Why do they make issues out of things that needn’t be issues?
I don’t really care about it to the point of making a big deal out of it I just DO NOT get these devs and their hatred of locomotion.
It’s been in the game for over 7 years!!! Stop it with this nonsense. No one thought it was a problem until they made it one.
I’m out of likes, so here’s a cupcake, which, frankly is yummier than a like,
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You’re echoing my thoughts and concerns exactly, my tinfoil wearing friend. There are many ways that Blizzard could have solved the problem of too many water striders… if that’s indeed the problem they’re trying to solve. The fact that they’re doing it this way makes me think there’s more to it than just that, especially since the topic of more water walking mounts has been brought up previously and then the answer was that they didn’t want to take away the uniqueness of the water strider.
Everyone who does not have a strider can use that equipment.
Why would someone not have the strider? are we creating equipments for new players only now?
… Maybe just make water strider walk at normal speed out of water??? Or else we gotta nerf multi seater mounts cuz muh advantage (hivemind will now be a one seater mount, but you can still invite players to party to simulate having others with you :D)
I mainly see it in every new expansion, until we get flying.
It still surprises me, such as in BFA when I was thinking “Wow, lot of water striders in BoreAllUs… oh yeah…” I tend to forget, as a DK, since I just use path of frost and whatever mount.
What would be funny is if, in protest of this change players asked for while also nerfing the Water Strider itself:
All players still used the Water Strider mount, for water walking.
Ion has taken a dislike to it. That is all.