The promised blog from Blizzcon interviews is still MIA at roughly a week before the patch goes live. Why am I not surprised, lol.
Does anyone think they will actually honor their promise from the blizzcon interview and post an official blog explaining how the loot system is being fixed for IE’s in 8.1??
You know, I had forgotten about that!
Target demographic confirmed?
They need to do this. If anyone wants to know why I need this, please see my title. Kipery, Seeker of Knowledge.
Both yth and bornak have been to busy posting off topic drivel to find out any info helpful to the game.
Yeah, their wallet 
What’s to explain? Kill stuff, click azerite nodes until the run completes. Collect paltry azerite reward. Repeat until weekly quest is done.
@Fugubar
The explanation that people have been asking for most is how in the world the loot drops from the island expeditions work.
EX. You can kill 500 islands full of pirates and never get the squawks mount to drop while you can kill one small mini-invasion of them and it suddenly drops.
People also want to know whether or not the invasions are skewed.
Etc…
They will probably just say they upped the loot chances giving some sort of percieved placebo effect when in reality they hadn’t touched anything.
What you’re describing is how to win/complete an Island Expedition. Unfortunately trying to get the loot you want from an Island Expedition runs completely contrary to how they are designed to be successfully completed.
I’ve noticed this. Targeting loot feels pretty much impossible.
Did many heroic islands over the week, going after rares, proccing invasions and killing the big guy with the two chests. I didn’t get anything outside of bags of doubloons… and even then half the IE didn’t even give me a bag. I got nothing outside of the standard AP reward.
It feels like a waste of time when there is no way to measure how close you are to your next potential item.
I’ve gotten tons of pets from doing IEs but that’s about it. But I crunched lots of IEs leveling this rogue from 110-120.
i used to ignore chests. Now i actually go for them. Also it seems like the chests that are buried, webbed, locked up, and ect seem to carry island specific loot. Nothing spectacular so far this week. I did get two more pets i didnt have though.
Doing lots of IE’s isn’t how to get the loot you’re after.
Doing a few IE’s slowly, methodically, and risking “failing” to beat the other team, is how you get the loot… assuming the RNG is feeling cooperative that week with island selection… and if the RNG is cooperative that run with what mobs spawn… and if the RNG is cooperative enough to give you the specific drops you’re looking for once you’ve murdered the right mobs (assuming they’ve spawned).