Water Strider Water Walking Passive - Removed

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Gasp… no water walking for players under level 100?

Gasp… Rip out all the legacy portals, and ‘forget’ to temporarily re-enable them for players levelling through those areas that need them?

Next they’re doing a level squish which will confuse the heck out of figuring out what level requirements go to what… and likely break all sorts of stuff.

Seems to me there’s one OBVIOUS GOAL here. Make leveling so massively unpleasant that more people pay for boosts instead.

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Congrats Blizzard. What’re you going to break next to squeeze a few extra bucks out of us?

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Blizzard has found that far too many people are using the Grand Expedition Yak and Traveler’s Tundra Mammoth for repairs/vendor overworld and in BoD. Those will now be nerfed and new mount equipment will be added in their place.

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We don’t have any clarification on the barding for 8.2. However, once mount equipment exists, I feel the odds of them introducing barding for future expansions is very low.

Also, remember that Broken Isles barding and stirrups didn’t work on Argus, so we may well be out of luck if they introduce a new zone for 8.3.

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Why not just let the waterstrider work below the lvl required for the new equipment? Problem solved.

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Or just make it act like Sky Golem. mind blown

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I don’t care either way. I’d just like to be able to use it on low levels like I do now.

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Naah that would be a gain, too good for the players.

You give something you take something, thats the rule from now on.

And you get to announce it as a patch feature! :tada:

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Good riddance.

Mounts in game: 123098
Mounts used for more than showing off in town: 1

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Well, at least they already know about it

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Wowhead did say this. A blue clarified this. It doesn’t change my stance on this as you still have to choose what equipment you want and change it out, meaning you have to carry a bunch of junk in your bag.

I am not against the mount equipment, for some it will be useful. I am against removing water walking from the strider, something I worked hard to obtain.

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Thats not the point. Like at all .

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So let me get this straight–

I will have to have the mount to unlock the water walking Equipment item…

That I:
1- Already grinded the rep for
2- Already purchased the mount because it WATER WALKS

So that I can:
1- Log into a character that has the rep for the unlock
2- Take the time to go purchase the BoA equipment item
3- PAY MORE GOLD even though I shelled out gold specifically for the mount because it WATER WALKS.
4- Mail it to an Alt so they can have WATER WALKING on a mount that USED to WATER WALK.

Nah, legit bad idea.

If players want choice on which mount they use for Water walking, let them go buy the item for a different mount-- But don’t force us to spend more gold on a mount that arbitrarily had water walking on, was removed, and we have to spend more time and gold to make it water walk again.

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Totally agree. Was just making sure that people had seen the Blue Post.

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I swear they are just looking for ways to make this expansion as horrible as possible.

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If Blizzard doesn’t have a problem with conditioning their employees into accepting intrusion into their private lives, why do players think Blizzard would refrain from conditioning us to accept their “less is more” development philosophy?

“Each time we introduced something, there was a bit of an outcry: ‘You’re prying into our lives,’ ” Ezzard said. “But we slowly increased the sensitivity of stuff, and eventually people understood it’s all voluntary, there’s no gun to your head, and we’re going to reward you if you choose to do it.”
“People’s sensitivity,” he added, “has gone from, ‘Hey, Activision Blizzard is Big Brother,’ to, ‘Hey, Activision Blizzard really is bringing me tools that can help me out.’ ”

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Except most areas in Vanilla don’t have much water to traverse. Most are small ponds or streams that are easily jumped or rode around, and there are bridges for places like Western Plaguelands near Anderhol. I honestly never used Water Striders much in those zones. But all my alts do keep the strider handy on my key bar for the few times they are needed. It is a shame that choice for under 100s is being taken away.

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The idea is that, if you so choose, you can replace waterwalking with another mount trait.

Or herb gathering with another mount trait.

Purely optional choices.

Oh how will we ever cope.

I was actually stoked about this. Guess I’m in the minority.

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And within that same video talking about the water strider losing its water walking…T&E mentioned this to Ion and he agreed that its a problem and most likely get fixed. Its not even on the PTR yet, chill people.

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Could you ride another mount please? Oh no you won’t, that’s what I thought.