Walter walking isn't as essential as people are making it out to be. Most of the times it's used in BfA zones are when crossing relatively small patches of water. Using water walking to cross the water in the middle of Tiragarde Sound for example would take longer than just using one of the boats or flight paths.
Because the DEVs have a hard on for decreasing convenience, esp in the travel department, for years now.
They are oldschool gamers and don't mind the slowdown or they want to exted time spent, since MAU is their new metric of choice.
Or, they could truly believe what they say and consider this good game design.
Who knows such things.
..When is this ever going to be a situation you find this in? I see people arguing tooth and nail using this logic: "But what if I need to water walk, without being dazed, and glide at the same time! what will I do then!?".
If you get attacked while walking on water, you sink, I'm not sure people seem to realize this. And if you're under water with your mount, your mount is now moving as fast as you would while unmounted, so congrats - you were effectively dazed, even if you had both pieces of equipment on.
But wait, what if I don't want to be dazed while OUTSIDE the water! ..Remind me again where besides Nazmir this is going to be a thing? You know, the zone in the expansion that's GOING TO GET FLYING?
All these arguments just don't have any merit. I've never run into the issue of needing to simultaneously walk on water and not be dazed at any point in my 14 years of playing WoW. This is simply not a thing. And if leveling alts is a concern - there are very few zones while leveling that you'd need water walking on that you didn't already have flying on, and those zones can simply be skipped.
Simply put: You do not NEED both. This is not something anyone needs. There is no point in the game where this is a thing, stop acting like it is.
people first asked for flying being removed they got it, then they whine to have it back
people whine for more mount options they get them and then they whine
this entitlement is why we cant have nice things
I feel like what they are doing is testing a new system, that in a later patch, they will expand upon. This new mount thing is like sticking their toes in the water. Blizz seems to like to "test" things on live, when what they should have done is fleshed out the system BEFORE releasing it. Tired of paying to test their latest "ideas" This has a ton of potential for utility AND to add some fun elements. Probably get nerfed before the fun gets added
That's what I wondered about and went to check - couldn't find any note that they are going to be removed or disabled, but maybe @Granyala knows?
I'm just concerned they're going to put a time limit on these things, so you'll have to buy loads of them. And since they're consumable instead of permanent, each time you want to switch to something else, you're going to have to have another of a different one. It's just an extra hassle for a 'fun, new system'. I would've much preferred if they'd just given traits to different mounts, like Horses and Wolves can't be dazed, Striders and [insert good water mount] allows you to run on water or swim super fast, and so on.
Since they REMOVE the innate waterwalking from the mounts and (most likely) remove the comsumable that makes you daze immune right now. Yes, you will be vulnerable to one of the two.
Right now I can use a barding, be daze immune on land and still hop onto my strider if needed.
Then I can only choose one of the two. Being daze immune via mount equipment = I can no longer ride on water, even if out of combat.
They WANT you to choose. How come this is so hard to understand?
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I was referring to the idiotic "roll another class" comment.
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I can see the water walking pots staying b/c they apply to the character and not the mount but I'd be surprised if the anti-daze barding would not become a mount equipment item, since it is essentially just that and has no effect (iirc) when on foot.
Mount equipment is just a trojan horse to remove mount water walking before next xpac.
Guaranteed, none of the BFA mount equipment will work in the next xpacs zones, and the new equipment will be gated behind yet more rep/pathfinding nonsense.