In 8.2, you'll have a new slot in your mount collection where you can place Mount Equipment. The intention of this change is that players who either don't have the Water Strider from the Anglers back in Mists or are sick of that blue bug will have the opportunity to get the same effect, as well as some others, on other mounts.
The feature unlocks at level 110, but this unlocks it for all characters 20+ (aka: the level where you first get mounts.) So while you will need to have a character who is at least to Legion's level cap, all your alts should then have access to it.
The three pieces of mount equipment will be:
One that allows the mount to walk on water, like the Water Strider,
One that prevents you from getting dazed and dismounted from enemy attacks,
And one that will deploy a parachute if you dismount while in the air.
They have also said that if they come up with other ideas, they might expand these options.
Mount equipment will be made by professions, and are intended to be relatively cheap and easy to produce.
You will have one equipment slot for all your mounts, so you can't make one mount your water mount, one your daze-proof, and one your parachute one.
The Azure Water-Strider will no longer inherently have water-walking, HOWEVER, those who have it already will get a free water-walking piece of mount equipment in the mail, and can purchase new ones that are account-bound for 40 gold from the Anglers quartermaster in Pandaria.
Some mounts will not benefit from mount equipment: the Sky Golem, for example, already has the inherent benefit of allowing you to gather herbs with it, and as such will not get other benefits.
Other effects, such as a Death Knight's Path of Frost or a Shaman's Water Walking will, however, stack, so if you are a Blood Death Knight you might just use the parachute one as you'll have daze immunity anyway as a tank and Path of Frost to give you water-walking.
Equipment will work like gems, so equipping one piece will destroy the previous one.
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