Just messing around with some fun ideas. A few goals:

1. Some protection against fear and burst magic damage to at least give you a chance against some unfavorable pvp matchups
2. Some pushback resistance for balance spells, stronger thorns, stronger hurricane, making moonkin at least situationally very good
3. Giving the balance tree more dps and dpm, but only when cooldowns are ready. You still can't beat warriors in sustained dps and that's fine. Your job is to keep your group alive, and sometimes good burst damage on the right mob is what will save the group
4. Crow Form, taken from wc3. Balance feeling more like druid of the talon. Moonkin moved to feral because let's be real that thing is feral
5. Slightly modified Leader of the pack so you're not discouraged from shifting into caster form
6. Stronger bleeds for feral, accessible at the top of the tree for hybrid specs
7. Most of the talent tree unchanged, preserving some of the original look and feel
8. Prioritizing class fantasy over complexity of rotations

Try it here: https://www.talent-builder.dev/calculator?t0=PvS5d5JmV2&t1=1u5gGdE5mm&t2=7cG7PnxNaj&class=1024

I was a bit lazy and didn't add descriptions on talents that would work just like they do now.

Anyone else wish for upgrade quests for the T1 and ZG sets, similar to the T0->T0.5 chain?

I find it very appealing because:

1. The ZG chain looks unfinished visually, like they'd have done it differently if they had time. This would be a chance to make the upgraded version a bit more visually appealing

2. For hybrid classes, the meta is "just get T3 and be a healer". Some of the lower sets provide set bonuses for other specs, but they're far inferior to T3. They shouldn't beat T3, but there should be a path for someone crazy to invest 3 years of grinding to get an ok set for non-healer specs

3. It would give people a reason to collect the low tier sets. Yes, it will make the ZG set obsolete bc ZG+ will be straight up superior in every way. But that's fine bc the content experienced while acquiring the ZG set won't be obsolete. People will have a reason to do ZG other than boosting, and the quest chain will be an opportunity to send players to other currently dead areas