Originally Posted by
damonskye
Who cares?
You literally haven't lost a single thing. You've only gained the option of relinquishing a water walking mount in exchange for a mount that doesn't ever get dazed, or deciding to make your favorite mount water walk too. You haven't lost water walking.
They have already said they are going to add more mount equipment in future. Perhaps one of those will be the ability to herb (or mine!!) from your mount. The possiblities are endless. Just because they aren't adding them in 8.2 doesn't mean they won't later on.
They're not going to remove flying altogether. We've already been down that road. They got the message.
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It's not per character. It's per account. You only need one mount equipment item to cover ALL of your characters. The only restriction is it can only be installed by a character over level 100, but it works on all your mounts, level 20 and up.