I had made a post about this recently with just a few ideas on the topic. Some people may not agree with but I had a few that I loved.
- Get rid of Azerite Traits , or turn them into an ability buff system like Path of Exile.
- Bring back Honor and Conquest Vendors . The current PvP reward system is garbage. Random BGs are a mystery as to how the gearing system works. Do I get a piece from a win or nah? Allow players to save up their PvP currency and target the gear they want to purchase. I have no idea why this was ever changed.
- Make PvP and PvE seperate. Gear from PvE should not be amazing in PvP and vice versa. Seems pretty self explanitory.
- Add a Badge system and get rid of RNG and not have it time gated leaving players to farm 5 months for 1 piece of loot, which we have now. I think one of the reasons Legion took off as well as it did was due to the implementation of the nethershard vendor. This allowed players to farm a currency and obtain gear.
- Add Armor/Gear Increase similar to some Free to Play games; armor or weapons go up to +15. While I dont want it to go that high we can do something with it. We had this before where armor can be increased from 2/2 or 4/4. Bring it back.
- Get rid of the current Talent Tree style. This system proves to be hindrance leaving players limited when it comes to chosen abilities that have no synergy or doesn’t help the spec/class at all.
- Bring back the old Tree system and build up on it like Path of Exile giving players “freedom” to breath and explore options.
- Bring back all Abilities that were taken away by Devs because they wanted to create a “new” experience per expansion when in fact it created nothing but neglected classes/specs from PvP/PvE content until needing buffs. The Azerite could have fit well here buffing certain abilities players “choose”.
- Get rid of Nerfing and fix the “Internal” issues classes/specs have. Nerfing has solved NOTHING leaving players angry.
- Add Player Housing . We have NPC housing in Major Cities and Zones and nothing for players to call home except for an Inn shared by players or players staying in the current expansion zones.
- Add Guild Fortress . Class hall did pretty good holding many players, so why not introduce an instance for Guilds to build upon with cool options and features. You can even have Guild battles allowing guilds to go into pvp mode to fight other Guild Fortresses.
- Bring back Quivers, relics, etc . We were supposed to have these implemented in WoD. They were supposed to be unique to classes. This would create more immersion in classes.
- Bring back Reforging . This allowed players to switch stats on their gear and gave players more unique customization with their characters.
- Add a better system for Professions . Make them relevant even in end game.
- Add the ability to Transmog Legendary gear/armor players worked hard to get.
- Add more Open World content. The “invasion” in 8.1 is ok but could be longer or more could happen around the zones. Not wait 8-10 hours for another one to pop up. Keep people engaged. Add more stuff for players to do like Wave dungeons or treasure hunting on Azeroth. Warcraft has so many zones, yet a lot of them remain empty due to the lack of open world engagement/content. It would’ve been cool to see Legion invasions happen all over Azeroth instead of just the broken isles.
- Add a system that allow PvPers to attack Major cities and get loot from them. GW2 has a system with walls breaking as well as AION; upon control in AION you can do dungeons for loot until it becomes “contested” again. We had this before with Tol’barad, Wintersgrasp, and Ashran. They just needed more work done to them to add more polish. This is what Warfront should’ve been.
- Add more Character Features . Cuts, scars, more detail, height, weights, etc.
- Add better and more Effects to armor and weapons; better cool looking enchanted bows and have arrows use enchants.
- Bring back Glyphs and cool looks Affliction Locks had with the orbs, etc.
- Give Druids more Moonkin form options and Resto form options.
- Add Hunts . This could be one of the forms of content that I mentioned above to get players back into the world and to engage in the world. There could be quests available on the Hero’s Call Board (the board in major cities you can click on and it sends you to appropriate zones) that send you to fight unique and challenging monsters across Azeroth. Said monsters can range in difficulty form solo-able to 5 man content. These monsters would have unique mechanics that make them CHALLENGING for players as well as having a retreat mechanic which would allow them to retreat to another part of the zone, requiring you (and your group if its harder) to track them and hunt them back down. Said bosses could reward unique xmogs for said monsters slain that made you look like a monster hunter. This could bring back some of the thrill and adventure back to WoW.
- Give Enhancement Shamans full control allowing them to maintain their Flametouge and Frostband like how they use to for 1 hour on w/e weapon. Same could be said for Retribution Paladins and their seals. Buffs added a lot of immersion into peoples classes. Not sure why this was ever removed.
- Give 2 Handed-Weapons to Enhancement Shaman and Frost Death Knights. Also 1 Handed-Weapons to Fury Warriors.
- Bring back and add Bleed/Poison/Burning/Slow frost/Plague/Electricity, etc effects on NPCs/Players for 5-10 seconds and have Arrows stay on NPCs/Players for 5-10 seconds.
- Remove Pathfinder or at least change it. Allow players the choice to complete pathfinder and unlock flying account wide or pay for flying on that single character.
- Put a little more love into your Holiday Events . Wildstar did a better job at this than WoW currently does. A couple decorations here and there are meh. Go nuts redecorating major cities. Blizz has an AMAZING art team. There is no reason this cant be done
- Actual Weather. At the moment all we get is rain every once and a while. Would be cool to see it snow in relative climates. Also would be kind of cool to have the weather actually affect the environment.