Yeah of course https://imgur.com/a/iCQH69U
You wrote you tested it on PTR, right-clicking does nothing (over or under 100) and below 100 I can't put it into the socket. What now?
since most people are going to use the water walking equipment anyway, only a few chars will get to use the others equipment available, like DK. so much choice for nothing....
and the genius thing is that once we do unlock flying, most if not all of those options will be useless anyway, until the next expac >_<
I guess I read the blue post on the OP too fast and didn't notice he's talking about alts buying the item, not just people who don't currently have the mount. I was going by another post that said the system is unlocked at 100 and after that lowbies can get access to it, implying the equipment used on the mounts would be available to your alts after applying it. Yeah it's an extra step to functionally get the same thing we had before. I can see now why people are upset. They could at least just leave the Water Strider innate ability so the equipment becomes an optional vanity.
No. I will criticize what I want when I want to. If I had just remain quiet you wouldn't have replied and I would probably still be wrong about the change. I can live with getting corrected when I say something stupid.
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Mostly for alts I'd wager, but since you only need to plop down 50g at a vendor in order to grant a character water walking mounts forever then I also think there's no issue here. I can finally leave that stupid bug in the bin of unused mounts where it very much belongs.
You have to BUY WW for all your characters, and if you switch mount equipment and want to WW again... You have to buy it again.
People are acting like everyone still gets WW just like they did before... They don't. Now it's a continual gold sink.
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Except you ALSO have to purchase the WW'ing token too. It isn't exactly the same. Right now I can farm a WWing mount, switch toons, and have WWing. After this change, For each character I want to WW, I have to purchase the equipment after farming the rep. You get ONE free equipment for ONE character.
Not the same. Not sure why people keep claiming the system is identical except now you can WW on any mount...
Sometimes, I just can't even:Originally Posted by Teffi
Originally Posted by Nixx
I haven't read much about the new mount equipment, but if they made it so the strider can get mount equipment it would leave people free to use different equipment for the mount, which means they could get waterwalking plus that equipment that prevents you from getting booted from the mount due to being dazed. Or something else, if there's something better.
It probably isn't as bad as it seems, people just don't seem to like change.
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I still think the Anglers item should be free at exalted but now that we know how insignificant the price is, my only complaint is that I'll have to go to Krasarang to buy one every time I make an alt (which is pretty often for me), but even that is so minor that I just don't care.
It'd be a pretty easy fix though, just put an Anglers vendor in the capital cities.
I tested this when PTR first went up.
You only need to be level 100 and have one of the strider mounts to buy the item (you can see those requirements listed if you try with someone under 100). You do not need to be the character that bought the original strider and you do not need rep (well not exalted anyway. was able to get at friendly - didn't have a ptr lvl100 with no rep to check).
You can send to other characters for use but under 100 can't use it at the moment.
My gripe with the system is this. i basically need to buy something back that I currently have for free. If the item was free I wouldn't be too annoyed despite the annoyance of having to send a load of these through the post.
Let me put it this way: The mount equipment allows people that don't like the Strider to get waterwalking with other mounts, which allows them a wider range of mounts to use. If the Strider itself gets mount equipment too, then you could have waterwalking and put a different piece of equipment with a different benefit on your Strider so that you can get waterwalking and a different bonus.
Also, if the equipment adds a visual to the mount, than how cool is that? People used to go wild over mount armor in games like Oblivion. Why would the character get suited up for a battle, but not their mount? If that were real life (don't take that too seriously, lol), that's how you'd end up walking. It adds just a tad more immersion to the game overall, and you could probably pick and choose what would look best with your characters outfit.
Honestly, even if the Strider doesn't get the equipment, it would be something to suggest to Blizz to get'er dun to make topics like this a non-issue.
Last edited by CritFromAfar; 2019-04-17 at 12:52 AM.
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