Burns
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They did this same shit in legion with emmisary boxes between major patches/seasons. They nearly always go back and knee cap potential hoarding by people trying to get a jump on things. You can still bank up a shit load if you paragon everything and DON'T turn anything in before the patch. The other thing you can do is run a shit load of islands stockpile up the AP quest items you get from them and then once the patch 8.2 hits run around and hand them all in they are all like 700-1k AP so it can add up pretty fast.
While this is a little bit different, since you would get a box per day in Legion, they do have a history of fucking up or outright lying about how boxes worked across major patches in the past. I would do the same hording thing in Legion with the emissary boxes, and one patch they didn't have a cooldown to open them. I spam opening 6-10 at the same time with high bad luck protection, and got 2 legiondaries back to back (before the game could reset BLP). They also said, in 7.2, you couldn't get the new legiondaires from old boxes, yet there were a plethora of reports and pics of people getting them from old boxes.
I'm not sure how many people, outside of the top 20 or so mythic raiding guilds, are grinding out Paragon shit in BFA. They are rather lackluster, but I am biased against them to start with, because I fucking hate world quests/dailies and hardly ever get them to begin with.