so azerite is the new big thing for bfa but i cant help but notice it isn't compelling at all and there are a few reasons
first up azerite is supposedly the whole reason for this war. you can talk about stormheim and innocent/murderous goblin miners all you like but as per blizzard no one actually cares about those things and the war is starting because sylvanas thinks azerite will be used to destroy the horde / she can use it to destroy the alliance. so put all that other stuff out of your mind.
so azerite is supposed to be a kind of fantasy plutonium that sparks up hostilities and an arms race. but what can you actually do with azerite?. we've seen it do a few things:
1. anduin and sylvanas felt a bit funny when they held it
2. gallywix put some on his cane, to no practical effect
3. azerite bombs were used to attack darkshore
4. eventually, the horde used it to make a slightly larger siege tank
and that concludes the list of things azerite does
ok i think we can see the problem here. azerite is functionally no more impressive than any of the other many sources of destructive power we already had. yes we can use it to unlock traits and stuff in bfa but that's purely a heart of azeroth thing. the factions aren't using azerite to do anything new. if azerite was what was used to destroy teldrassil and undercity then that might turn up the stakes but for now it's seeming like no one knows why teldrassil burns and sylvanas self-destructs undercity with blight
uhh why is this stuff so important again exactly? what is so special about azerite that its appearance sparks the biggest alliance vs horde war of all time?
at the same time we had it spelled out from the beginning that azerite is the blood of the world which is currently dying. so it should be clear in all of our minds that using this stuff and fighting this war is a really stupid idea. i don't know why this had to be revealed from the beginning because it really takes the wind out of the sails of all-out faction war. i guess it was to throw a bone to the people who think faction war is a stupid concept but all it really does is make everyone look like idiots as we follow the single path blizzard laid for us. i mean that's nothing new but it would be nice if they tried harder for once.
so azerite does nothing special and everyone knows using it is a terrible idea. is this compelling to anyone. i cant help but notice no one on forums actually talks about the war starting because of azerite even though that's the reason blizzard went with. there's just nothing to say about this stuff. they deleted the mystery about it from the beginning and we're told its powerful but never given a demonstration.
maybe it will be used to destroy teldrassil after all but they seem to have backed away on the horde's war crimes after everyone hated their storyline. so who knows? at the moment though this stuff is a dud.