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I agree. Please do not do away with water walking on water walking mounts. We worked hard to get those.
Water walking is being expanded to all mounts? Then I see no reason for getting our panties in a knot over striders losing it natively. Slap the Anglers' Water Striders on that sucker and you're right back to how it was before the update no harm, no foul.
I deleted my character who was exalted with the Anglers but already had the mount so it didn't bother me.Looks like I'm grinding to Exalted again to gain access to rewards I thought I already obtained, or undeleting the character whenever I want to buy more shoes.
I have absolutely no problem with this. I'm sick of using my water strider when I'm in watery zones.
I don't give a little rat's ass about losing water walking strider as long as I can still water walk. And the other stuff actually makes it look preferable.
"This is a discount version of the water walking equipment, available to players exalted with The Anglers as compensation for Water Striders losing the ability to waterwalk. One is mailed for free, while replacements can be bought from Nat Pagle for 40 gold, far cheaper than the material cost for the crafted version."I shouldnt have to pay anything, they should just leave the mount alone. Blizzard just loves pissing people off with terrible stories and terrible design. Feel bad for the art team though, hope they can move to a better game in the future.
Such a stupid change if it stays with 1 slot per character and not per mount. Having to choose between water walking and any of the other bonuses is just ridiculous. Just leave the water striders alone.
"while retaining that lost advantage for players who favor it"It doesn't retain it though. People who put the effort in to get a Water Strider had an advantage over players that didn't and now everyone else will have that same advantage without putting the effort in.The only way that lost advantage would be retained is if the WS kept its water-walking ability and people could still use a different mount equipment on other mounts. Otherwise, it is just back to a level playing field and that advantage worked for by so many players is just lost.Nobody likes losing things.
all this crying over water walking is nonsense!, the real issue is that we still cant switch out our backpack with a bigger bag! lol!
Light-Step Hoofplates not stacking with Pathfinder makes it absolutely worthless since Pathfinder is also 20%. Why not get Pathfinder instead?
I'm not 100% displeased with removing water walking - it's a great convenience on the Strider - and it is common. So our cats, raptors, horses, wolves, etc., mounts. You want more diversity give abilities to the mount 'classes'. Follow the hunter pet rules (cunning, tenacity, ferocity) on the mounts. Tanking mounts you can't get stunned/dismounted easily. Cunning faster. Tenacity - less fall damage or ability to climb/jump or something. This could be restricted to ground mounts only too.But I'm a tad unclear - we can only have ONE Mount Equipment across an account? That doesn't sound very diverse - other than ALL your characters could use water walking (or whatever) on a variety of mounts. But won't be very helpful if you have characters in all the different expansions. I would think each character should be able to equip whatever it chose to use. Water walking is useless in most of Azeroth/Outlands and Northrend. But definitely helpful in the new expansions.Give us more choices on how to assign the equipment. If we need a level 100 to open that ability peachy, but restricting it to ONE type of equipment really is taking more away than what we're being given back.* I had hoped when I read equipment it was going to be a visual effect too. I was thinking "Dang Blizz! Go big or go home!" That's a bold move adding that to all the mount models. Silly me! ** To the OP it's rein in not reign (that's ruling). Thanks for the info though!
What I do not get is why are they doing this in the middle of an expansion and not at the start?
I took me time to get Reins of the Azure Water Strider and i will lost that advantage.... Very bad for those are playing WoW for a long time.... What is the advantage if anyone just need a boost character and got all advantages WITHOUT time play ? It's a bad day for WoW... :(