I honestly dont know. I played the entire BfA when it was relevant, so my HoA was always just filling up passively 
HoA was what we grinded Azerite for. It empowered the traits in BfA Azerite gear. You can get any of the quests once you have it, regardless of its level or amount of Azerite itâs charfed with.
Even if you wear it, which you must do to get some quests, HoA does not give power any more. But if you want to soend time in BfA, you really need to get it, since some quests require it.
If you donât have it, DO THIS FIRST!
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Alliance - no. Just no. Iâm yet to remember the expansion, where the bulk of the zonal content is THAT much generic, irrelevant and annoying. Those bees, quillboars and piggies questlines could have worked for a starting zone, like barrens. May be. But weâre in the middle of an epic War, yâ know? Drustvar is decent, but itâs plot is pretty much self-contained too. And the very concept of âhey, had anyone seen our fleet?.. Weâve got the fleet missing!â Meh⌠Horde zones are better designed, from what Iâve seen, and Iâve also heard that their side of the story is much more engaging.
Old wowhead threads mention HoA lv80 as the top-most lv unlocking something. Itâs hard to tell whatâs been changed and how with all the âscalingâ and âbalancingâ, but BfA had not been legacy-nerfed just yet. As a person who had to catch up with BfA content very recently (still in progress, Iâve just finished Nazjatar for the first time), I can say that the numbers do not actually require any special grinding. Heart grows with pretty much anything you do, and playing the stroy\world content would be enough.
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Well, I disagree about the storylines. I grant you that the quillboar are annoying, and especially that one quest - I donât even have to specify, since everyone who played Stormsong knows what I mean. I still have my PTSD 
I do think Drustvar was excellent, maybe good enough to be a Wrath zone. I liked the Jaina line, especially the soft-hearted ending, and the War Campaign withing BfA proper was ok.
The Horde side is about the same quality overall. Nazmir seems depressing and uninteresting at first, but it does get a lot better. And ofc Bwonsamdi steals the show, the undisputed star character of BfA!
BfA zones have nothing like the quality of earlier expansions, but compared to Shadowlands itâs a breath of fresh air.
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Drustvar was a amazing, I very much enjoyed levelling my Allies.
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Jainaâs line is ok, but itâs essentially a 10min intro + a short thing happening after you finish all of the base content. Same for the campaign, most of it was in the cinematics (+raids). E.g. in Legion we were mostly fighting the Legion, in all their shapes and sizes, in Cata we were assisting cool characters with fixing the mess and preventing the armageddon. In BfA it felt like I was doing some random stuff + watching the cinematics.
And donât even get me started on the non-existent NE storyline, which should have never been moved into the oblivion of the short pre-patch events, and which deserved WAY better development, imo.
Donât even get ME started on the cosmically stupid pre-patch âstoryâ, and the deeply deranged devs who allowed it to happen at all.
But in BfA proper, the story was of a decent quality for WoW.
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Going beyond rank 50 or 55 had serious diminishing returns. Rank 80 was the last meaningful unlock (a Stamina bump IIRC), after that all it did was slightly increase in ilvl which wasnât worth actively farming for. Fun fact, it still increases in ilvl and there is no cap for the rank you can get so you could increase the ilvl indefinetly. Which means that, technically, the Heart of Azeroth is and always will be the BiS neckpiece for every character, you just need to keep grinding AP until the heat death of the universeâŚ
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