I have really enjoyed Season of Discovery. As a player of original Vanilla who recently re-discovered Classic with Hardcore, I’ve really enjoyed the mostly relaxed pace and fresh curve-balls SoD brings, as well as all the new fun loot to be found in BFD. However, I can’t help but wonder about all the low-hanging fruit (especially in a phased approach) that wasn’t considered.
There should be more fun things to discover purely for flavor, class fantasy or cosmetics. Serpent Form as a Cat Form cosmetic replacement, dropped from the Druids of the Fang in Wailing Caverns? A special tameable parrot pet in the Deadmines? A dark Relic for Paladins that turns all their spell effects from Holy to Shadow/Death Knight type?
Also, I think it was a miss to not do anything with the existing low-level sets Defias Leather and Embrace of the Viper. These could’ve easily been upgraded/updated to give some fresh interactions with the new available/viable specs like Balance Druid or Tank Rogue (or even given a path to upgrade with some BFD-only drop kind of like the Profession Void-Touched items). They were barely useful to collect in Classic before they were outclassed, but in SoD they could’ve found some new life in this 25 level cap phase. Even in the new BFD content, items like the Crashing Thunder and Gusting Wind fist weapons surprised me as they were clearly designed together, but were not given a neat set bonus for flavor.
TLDR: I’d like to see more discoveries just for fun or flavor alongside the actual Runes with ability/throughput/gameplay changes.