I have a question. I have recently maxed out my Heart of Azeroth and as such artifact power rewards from world quests and missions give me gold. Tell me. Does the weekly island expedition reward give gold now or is it still ap which would remove the need for it for me. I mouse over it and I see a circle icon with overlapped writing inside it?
Congratulations 
I’m pleased to see they’ve fixed it so this time you get gold rewards once maxed. In the past they’ve given us nothing, which was disappointing, it was AP just vanishing into thin air.
I’m not sure about the weekly island expeditions. I guess worst case scenario you experiment and report back with your findings 
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The AOO quest rewarded Azerite for me as usual this week and I maxed out my Heart shortly beforehand.
It’s going to be weird not gathering Azerite… three months maybe until 8.3?
Good to know! I’m most of the way to 68, and even though I’m not actively pursuing AP, I can imagine than 70 will creep up on me fairly soon.
(Awkwardly the alt that hit 120 just 11 days ago is on HoA 60… catch up is savage. I worked so. Damn. Hard. To get the neck level up on this character, and now it’s trivial.)
Yeah I went on my Alliance alt to do the Bee farm and popped in to Nazj for a few bits of gear before I started, it’s amazingly fast on alts. Like WHOOSH, here are a load of levels for your HoA…
OTOH, the essence grind remains. That alt basically did the war campaign and dungeons from 110-120, so’s to jump into benthics asap, and as such has very little rep with any faction. Sure, the rank 1 essences show up pretty easy, but the higher rank are quite a long ways away.
Yeah I have like two essences on that alt and that’s it. One from Nazj and I’m not even sure where the other came from. The default one you get doing the questline I presume.
I don’t mean to flex but i got 65+ on 3/6 chars so far, filled with rank 3 essences
Flexing was the only purpose of this post
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A lot of the first rank essences just fall on you as simple solo quests - which I kind of like. Sure, I can imagine going to the emerald dream and such will get boring, but it only takes ~40-60 mins per essence and that’s endurable.
Higher ranks… are arguably just nice to haves? Unless you’re trying to maintain 2 characters at high-tier raiding quality. And I don’t remember doing that in TBC or Wrath or Cata either 
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It depends on the essence, for example crucible is just nice to have rank 3 of
Seeds though … Rank 3 is what makes the seeds fun & worth using
Flex away
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The 3 others out of the 6 is 63 
Victory lies with the Gilneas brigade!
Woof!
EDIT: The weekly Island Expedition quest now does give 2000 gold also. (The mission from the treasure map can still give AP, though.)
No, it doesn’t. Neither do emissary quests, paragon bags, BGs, arenas, weekly chests, etc.
The only rewards that change are World Quests (AP WQs award gold or war resources), missions (you will still sometimes get AP missions, but most will give around 120 gold per mission with a 100 gold bonus), and unsuccessful bonus rolls (which give 2000 gold instead of AP).
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Its gonna go to lvl 100 in 8.3 OMEGALUL
I don’t know about the other activities you listed since I only dinged 70 yesterday, but the current Champions of Azeroth emissary is 3000 AP for my alts (below 70), and 2000 gold for my main with 70.
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HoA is easy to LvL up until 67, things get harder after that.
#boycottblizzard
Oh, this is good! I don’t have any alts at max level, so differences here aren’t noticeable to me (2000 gold rewards for emissaries pop up regularly, too). I only noticed that all the bags still contain AP.
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I hit 68 today, I’m hoping it wont take too long to hit 70.