A dumb and immersion killing change. I hate it
I don't care about losing innate waterwalking. I'm going to be flying over the water. Next expansion, I'll equip the shoes and I won't have to use the dang strider. Sweet.If I really must go ON the water, I'll use my angler's raft. Or equip my waterwalking fishing pole. Or one of the other half dozen options for waterwalking.
Removed
Nerf Waterstriders because they are too common?Nerf those ruddy erratic plant-picking robotic mobile junkheaps while you're at it. I see way too many of them.
I can't wait to see this item in patch 9.0:ToyAllows your mount to walk on water for 10 mins. (2 hrs cooldown) (Only usable in KulTiras and Zuldazar)
Horrible. Leave waterwalkers with the ability to walk on water and allow this system for other mounts that don't have a special ability. Also, while you were at it screwing things up why isn't there flying equipment to install on mounts that don't have flying? It is beyond my understanding why one application of an ability forces all mounts to have it...this is poor implementation and should have allowed each individual mount to have their own unique equipment. Stop defeating the purpose of working towards a goal by moving up the goal posts for lazy (aka casual) players every patch.
I would prefer if we could apply different mount equipment to different mounts. If I want to water walk, then mount up on this mount that has that particular mount equipment. Apply the parachute mount to my flying mounts. If I'm in an area where there is no water, mount up on the mount with the speed boost or the undazable equipment if I want to blow through trash. I just wish it wasn't across the board.
Blizzard has done this for years. I remember grinding for weeks to get all the materials for my Paladin mount, which was exorbitantly expensive in the day, only to have them give it to everyone for a fraction of the cost at a vendor. And the same with the Netherdrake I spent weeks grinding on to have them make it available to everyone at a vendor. And now after having grinded for weeks and fishing (which I hate) and paying 4000g to have it given away effectively is another slap in the face. I previously could use the mount from level 20 and now I have to wait for level 100? This is the reason I grinded all that time so I could use it leveling toons. At least give us the option to use the Water Strider as it was intended from level 20, not requiring this water walking item. Give us something for all the effort we put in.
I admire how cool you take this. I personally take this as an insult. We already did our grinding - for weeks - to obtain this accountwide mount! And now we must PAY for the effect to persist (the fact aside that this mechanic puts the mount near to useless)? What else Blizz? Are you serious? You are more and more punishing the players instead of rewarding them (I could write a whole novel about this...) - and you do seriously wonder why a bunch of us quit?I officially propose then to remove flying ability from the flying mounts as well. Add a second equipment slot instead. Or better add two: one for left wing and one for right wing. You can then sell two winged equipment (e.g. like two handed axes) that takes up both slots... In the real money shop, of course...
I just created a lvl 20 Dark Iron Dwarf Alt today and find that NONE of my mounts have the ability to walk on water. Unlike the rest of my toons, I did not receive this enchant in the mail. So if I'm reading the notes above correctly, this lvl 20 toon has to purchase this ability!. Uh..how about...NO. This is an account bound mount that already had the water walking ability. Why must ANY Alt created after patch 8.2 have to re-pay for an ability that an account bound mount had? Why must this Alt pay for something that was GIVEN to other Alts? My main DID the grueling work and EARNED THIS account bound mount as reward. If its innate water-walking ability was destroyed and given to ALL account bound mounts, OK. Then GIVE it to ALL lvl 20+ Alts in possession of that account bound mount...no matter when that Alt was created.Had this water strider, experiment-gone-wrong never taken place, this lvl 20 Alt would have been able to mount that water strider out the gate and WALK ON WATER! Don't make me grind for a special mount, then take it's special ability away, only to tell me I can have it again if I pay gold for it now b/c my TIME, my blood, and my sweat wasn't enough the first go-around. The alternative is to wait til this toon is lvl 100. I don't know what's more insulting.