In best version of reality every mount would have separate slot for equip
But we live in darkest one. And in darkest one it would make more sense to use equip that makes you immune to daze on mount. Cause it’s literally worst thing in the game.
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This was asked for over and over and over again, by many players.
Blizzard ignored them.
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I don’t like how it works functionally, I have friends who use it and if they get hit they fall through the water and have to get out of combat and then remount in order to make it work again. I think if you get out of combat and jump up on the water again it should be fine. Everyone I know using the water walking mount equipment rage about it constantly lol.
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That’s no different than using water walking potions or water strider mounts in the past.
Mount equipment is a stupid pointless ‘feature’ whose only purpose was to expunge the water strider’s ability from the game.
Mission accomplished.
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I categorically disagree.
I have no interest in buying mount equipment for every one of my mounts, nor do I feel like wandering through my mount list deciding which one would get what.
I have been dismounted in Naz and Mech less than 10 times since 8.2 dropped so while it may be an issue for others it’s not for me. Also: Course Leather Barding.
I am, and I mean it, sorry for the water strider crowd - you should not have had this thrown at you. For me, since I absolutely lacked - and lack - the patience to grind out that mount this change has been great for me.
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Comfortable Rider’s Barding is MUCH better imho, I don’t have to remember to reapply it and I have no inventory to keep track of. Water walking is situational based on the zone and what you’re doing, daze is there everywhere to annoy you.
but there’s no ready to equip water walking ability short of a buff from a shaman or that potion that no one makes any more. that is neat to know there is something like that out there though.
On my main I have Path of Frost since I’m a DK, and on my alts I just hop on my Darkwater Skate when I need to cross a body of water. Water mounts may be slightly slower than water walking but it’s a small price to pay for the ability to completely remove daze from the game while mounted.
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Of course waterwalking equipment is pointless, as soon as flying is available you really have no reason to walk on water again…
Even if you don’t have Coarse Barding equipped there are other alternatives that make it difficult to get knocked off your mount. Tank specs by default cannot be dazed off a mount, if you have a prism from BoD along with Resounding Protection traits you cannot be dazed when taking hits in an absorb shield, and you can actually just avoid mobs all together with a little bit of skill ![:yum:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/yum.png?v=6" ":yum:")
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That isn’t what the people who buy from the auction house are saying.
I had the water strider. Even the red one!
And… mount equipment is fine with me.
I haven’t yet used it on my DK or Shaman, because you know they have their own thing.
I do notice all mounts do dip under now, as the Strider sometimes did.
But i don’t really see the issue.
Sorta sucks that Sky Golem is immune to mount equipment though, just something else i need to remember…
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Yea it’s buggy for sure. I have many times when I’m on land and get in combat with some random mob, run out of range and drop combat, run into water only to sink. I then have to dismount and mount again to make water waking work again. It’s annoying as a word I can’t say on the forums
I never had a water strider mount so I didn’t know lol. I remember using path of frost while mounted and with my shaman I used water walking a lot. I had this idea that the water strider was able to just pop back onto the water again after it left combat.
I am sorry to the water strider folks who used it a lot, I had a few friends who had it but I always too lazy to farm the rep for it because all my mains could traverse water with very little issue except my paladin.
That being said, as a druid, aquatic form isn’t quite as fast but it’s nice being able use it even after getting hit. I used travel form in vanilla up until 60 because I wanted to buy a six demon bag instead of a mount and riding lol.
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The good news is, if you like anti-daze better than water walking, then you can choose to get anti-daze instead of water walking.
And if you prefer having both, then get a Coarse Leather Barding while using a water walking equipment piece and pay for the consumable. OR, use Water Walking potions while having the anti-daze equipment buff on (if you aren’t a DK or Shaman).
This is how water walking works. I’m fairly certain, going all the way back to classic.
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If the mount only provided water walking in that way like the rest of wow did, I don’t know what my friends raging on about then. It sounds like, business as usual then.
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Your water strider doesn’t walk on water anymore? Mine sure does, because I chose that equipment. I don’t know how the water strider’s ability was removed from the game–it was simply expanded to other mounts. I guess we could foreshadow a currently nonexistent scenario where it is removed all together, but no point in assuming the worst…
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It sounds like there is another but that prevents water walking from being re-enabled after remounting until you log out for a while. Perhaps that’s the problem they’re running into.
Agreed OP.
I was really disappointed when I found out that equipping my water walking automatically did it for ALL mounts.
Not only would I prefer to have different mounts equipped with different abilities, but it also would have given me something extra to work on as I worked toward equipping everyone.
Maybe we’ll see them expand this?
Why bother? It’s pointless because of flying. No daze and speed equipment are far far more useful.
Who’s going to slot water walking just so they can use it in a few old no fly instances and zones?
Almost no one eventually. Exactly as blizzard intended… They want us to give up the ability.