We need Flying mounts to be able to glide while in non-flying areas. Just like DH, but whitout the double jump.PLEASE!
very useless idea ever.. but at last august 27 we have a REAL WORLD OF WARCRAFT..
Hm. Comfortable Rider's Barding. Recipe says two Coarse Leather Barding each. As opposed to an expansion/lifetime income stream from the 2-hour (except for leatherworkers, for whom it's 8) coarse barding? Sounds like a way of greatly reducing one of the few steady income earners for leatherfolk.
What's wrong exactly with an item from 4 expansion ago being irreplaceable? It's still obtainable. How awful that people are encouraged to do some old content. This is one of the biggest problems with the current design philosophy. Only what's "current" should be relevant. Why do that to a product this enormous with so much time and energy spent on it by past devs? There's no faster way to ruin your IP than to make your past accomplishment irrelevant. Good job.
I would like to see some mount equipment that increases or decreases my mount size. Be about as useful as Water Walking when I can fly.Though, I can see my baby alts Water Walking around...that will be semi-useful.
RIP, Path of Frost...?
Unless the will come up with something interesting some day I will just put in waterwalking on all chars.
Frankly, I'm not very convinced about this game design idea.I'm a Shaman, I have the ability to water walking (so DK), so for my main is not necessary but it's very useful for my Alts. I'm force to choose between my Main and my Alts, make using Alts less attractive to me, because this is bind to account. I really understand why developers don't love the idea we use only one kind of mount, but this happens only during the first part of an expansion, when fly will be unlocked, no one will use the Waterstrider again... until the next expansion. But, waterstrider is quite common by now in BfA also because the environment design, during Legion was less used. The lack of a fast travel system (now even worst after Teleportal removal) make this mount quite mandatory in Kul Tiras and zone like Nazmir.Underwater mounts can be used in place of Waterstrider as well, but because you can't breath underwater, when you emerge to breath, you are dismounted... Why don't make this mount more attractive? Perhaps this system can be improved by dividing mounts by type and giving the possibility of assigning a different Perk. So we can decide, for example, to make fly mounts faster or prevent daze to ground mounts or underwater can waterwalking. These perks could be unlocked through quests, different game activities or during the expansion stages. Made work around discover new perks for the mounts more "epic", just like was in legion mage Tower/class mount or unlock a new Artifact's appearances. But in this way, this system could result boring just like use only the Waterstrider...
Because Brutosaurs running on water makes sense. :D
Imagine removing a Druid’s ability to herbgather in their Flight Form, yikes.
This really feels like Blizzard has a grudge towards players, new and old alike. I'm typically in favor of well planned, useful gold sinks but the execution behind this system is so poorly done it feels like a blatant spit in the face while robbing people blind... likely from the spit.Two Simple solutions:1) Water Striders retain their innate ability but lose the option for customization allowing those who put in the massive time and effort to retain their bragging rights and full use of the mounts if they so choose.2) All other mounts, except the Sky Golem and any other future profession augmenting mounts, can be individually set with mount equipment. For those who collect mounts, have OCD or are just completionists, this could end up with players equipping hundreds of different mounts with gear... or just five and rotating as needed but at least players are given the choice and the gold sink sees active use either way.Two little changes and all the negativity goes away to be replaced by the mount equipment system people have eagerly anticipated since the days of items like the Carrot on a Stick.Just my two coppers.
Now wait till they remove "Flying" from mounts and add "Anti-grav" equipment.To make summary of feature: just another feature which is interesting, BUT its actual implementation is barely 10% of what it could be in perfected form.I'd say that MANY of features I can remember added suffer from this: Transmogs, collections, wardrobe, garrisons, followers, achievements, currencies, etc...ALL of those are very interesting, but their implementation fall short. And unfortunately only few are improwed over time and even then slowly and not in way players want most. I'd say some are even getting worse with time.Feature potential:Transmogs: started at 10% now thanks to wardrobe at maybe 20% - I can imagine minor upgrades which could easily get it to 70-80% of its overal potentialCollections: need major upgrades in searching options and collection type groupings - Toys should get subsections by type - cosmetic, teleportation, objects - NEW items should be added as toys as added and not when someone in few months remembers toWardrobe: - MANY more Armor Sets should be added (questing, dungeon, hidden BfA PvP ones, ...) and not just Raid and PvP ones.Garrisons: only all which was cut from original promises would multiple its current potentialAchievements: I'd say here it was better in past, but with adding new and new ones its getting worse - major upgrade would be adding next tier subsection (like truly dividing Raid Achievements by each raid and not have all expansion ones together - another would be bigger division in character, class-wide and account-wide onesCurrencies: they should try design some currencies (catch-up ones) as account-wideBUT back to mount equipments:- some mount specific abilities (water walking, Herb gatheriyng and even flying) should remain with original mounts, BUT they should add some way to extend it to other mounts - basically "Mount transmog" - these should be account-wide - nothing new to mounts here- mount equips adding abilities currently from consumables or not present in mounts till now - "Anti-daze", "bigger-jumps", etc... - these could be set for every char as needed- Personally I think better way to handle this mount equipment idea would be adding some hard to get Toy-like items (or even Toys) with continuous and not-combinable effects instead of adding whole new system
For the purposes of mount equipment, will Druid's ground Travel Form / Stag Form be considered a mount? The post mentions Flight Form, which might indicate they consider that to be a mount, but it does not mention ground Travel Form.
No herbalism mount equipment is the single worst design decision Blizzard has ever made. It makes this system nearly pointless as consumables for all the other buffs have existed for a long time.
Too many people taking advantage of a better way of traveling which Blizzard introduced to begin with, so Blizzard has to ruin the fun.
I disagree with your assessment. Everyone has the ability to rep grind for a water strider but Blizz likes to hold peoples hands and give them things instead of requiring people to you know, play the game. I fail to see the over reliance on the water strider because you aren't forced to use it unless you take short cuts and there are a handful of places you can't fly excluding current content so I find this whole thing stupid as f*&k. Flying will become available soon so there will be no "over reliance" on water striders walking on water ability except for those few areas where flying isn't allowed. This is just bliz making more stupid decisions and not learning from past mistakes.
Removing water walking from water walking mounts?Real jerk move from Blizzard, it's like they are forgetting the time and efford some people put into getting them, and now everybody kan have it for "free".I have a lot of bad words I will not post here, but I'm pissed at Blizzard.
Neverwinter has something similar to this, but it's stat-based. I'm glad that this actually has the option to give your mounts abilities, as opposed to just giving your character more stats lol