Patch 8.1 is out. A lot has happened! Some classes and some azerite traits got rework. New questline, new MOUNTS, new rewards and new assaults and new warfront. (The raid doesn't open before january.) So, what do I think?
I'm super happy! Because they fixed some of the bad azerite traits for balance druids. It made me want to go back to my druid again. I started this expansion as druid, but the azerite traits made me choose lock (affliction) instead. The warlock traits were just better designed. I still don't like lively spirit, but it got nerfed. So it's not a must-have anymore.
There is a lot to do now. I haven't finished the questline yet. The story is ok. But some of the quests are not that great. When will they learn that if you release new quests. EVERYONE will do them at the same time! And if you have to be the first to tag a specific enemy to get the kill, it will be hopeless to get the quest done... This has happened sooo many times before. Why on earh would you create quests like that? One quest bugged for me too. There was an NPC that didn't show. A hotfix came later and fixed it. But it was not a good first impression of the patch.
Darkshore is a really cool place now, with the dark moon. And new rare elites that can drop mounts are just super cool! I have taken them down with three characters. Was lucky enough to the black bear mount (super druid mount!) and the chimera. Can't wait to get the moonsaber!
Island expeditions has gotten better rewards too. And you get a map that rewards something (could be money, MOUNTS, pets and such). That makes them worth doing again! And you only have to do 4 heroic ones to do the weekly thingy. The tortollan emmisary quest rewarded me with a random 370 item! Got a new trinket!
So I'm going to test out balance druid a bit more. Maybe I will switch back to it in the next tier. There is just too much stuff to do to be able to keep both characters up to date. I need to focus on one of them to get good.
For my own need of documentation, here is my Uldir statistics from 8.0: (I was never able to persuade the raid leader to put me in the last group on mother... :p )
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