and they will allow the community to choose where the new branch will start, but it cannot be vanilla or the latest expansion (Dragonflight for now).
Which expansion are you picking and why?
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Hear me out… Cata.
This expansion, from what we’ve seen, has the most potential in terms of Classic+. Several scrapped raids can resurface, a whole system abandoned late into development (Path of the Titans).
Sure, other earlier expansions have scrapped content such as Wrath’s Azjol Nerub and Vanilla’s Azshara Crater BG. However, Cata’s selection of cut content is just enough to make its Classic+ version something way more than the original release.
WoD is a close second for the same reasons.
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Legion.
Its the last of retail I like playing. 10 to 60 leveling in legion is a great time. I do Runas story every time. One of the greatest side stories ever told, imo.
I missed the full run since I started wow like a month before BFA. I want to see it as it was.
At 60 that evil gnome dragon chromie drags us out (literally,
60 second timer and you get pulled out) and puts us in the massive crap pile.
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And all that crap you gave to Abomb then, was for nothing.
He was kind of right all along, as many of us suspected.
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I think the assumption was always that a classic+ would branch off post vanilla, but…
TBC+, we never go home and instead become space adventurers exploring a new planet every expansion.
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TBC, feels the most like vanilla mechanically but with class and spec identities more fleshed out. Good baseline to start with.
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I’d have to agree. Even though I feel MoP would be a good splitting point lorewise due to Garrosh not only surviving that raid but escaping afterward and directly leading to the rest of retail’s expansion.
Cataclysm mechanic-wise has everything people generally point at wanting/complain about when it comes to classic/retail(If you disregard LFR). Still has talent trees, still has the good version of glyph, has both reforging and transmog, classes haven’t gone full nutzo as they do in MoP (What was that one crazy druid ability that was like 40 abilities depending on some other arbitrary thing?), Rated Battlegrounds, and even though it was a bit more complicated if you don’t actually care about what others do 10 and 25 raids were great for everyone.
My reason for that is basically the line that is drawn in regards to Vanilla of those who want it and those who want Classic+ which I’m 100% will end up being one or the other. So best to let the Era guys keep their game instead of forcing them to progress like everyone else has.
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Glad you provided a source.
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YES!! Please, id up subbing for another 3 years
The (hypo) I’m assuming means hypothesis. No source required for speculation.
My speculation is wrath. They already made a bunch of changes and will probably implement the most liked features of cata. When you step back and look at the changes made and are coming (including class changes), not to mention wrath is the most popular expansion overall. They may call it cata or classic plus… really it’s going to be wrath+…it already is…lol.
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MoP for sure!
The raids were fun, the music was beautiful, the zones were also beautiful, the “world boss tours” gave some extra gear/chances at cool mounts, and those 3 man scenarios that people could queue for, were amazing, and the gear wasn’t bad for people who can’t or don’t want to raid, or couldn’t find a tank/heal since any 3 combo could queue for them, and beat them.
The challenge mode dungeons with the pheonix mounts were also pretty great.
Pet battles were a great new way to level when one got tired of questing.
And the cloak quest! What a great feeling of accomplishment, especially for someone like me who has severe disabilities. To actually have a chance at a such a nice piece of gear was an amazing thing.
My two favorite specs of beast master hunter and disc priest played well for me.
I know a lot may not have liked them, but for me, they flowed well and felt very useful in LFR, which was another great addition IMO for people who wanted to do the story raids, but either had no time, or the skill (or both) to do the harder mode raids.
I guess for me, MoP felt very disabled player friendly, but then again, so did cata… so hard choice, but over all I think MoP was my favorite just slightly over cata.
Oh and alts… alts were easy to level and gear thanks to pet battles, LFR, and timeless island tokens.
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Warlords, I don’t wanna go back I wanna hang out and save Durotan, have 2 thralls and be good red orc boi.
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Wrath or Cataclysm. Never pl;ayed WOD or MOP myself. So I can’t comment on that. I did really enjoy BFA lock though. Not the SL version. Outlaw in SL was pretty good. I also loved BrM for keys in Sladowlands.
I do prefer Cataclysm class changes though. The gameplay for all specs was polished quite well in Cataclysm, and its honestly, same as Wrath added abilities and smoothed out rotation, Cataclysm did the same thing. And updated dungeons do feel awesome.
The Dark Portal never opens and you must instead fight High elves and Ogres…
My totally original idea… 
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it’s afraid!
yeah…the forums would have exploded if classic+ was actually announced, so nice clickbait title you got there
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Anything that big would be saved for Blizzcon
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Hypothetical, but yes.
Didn’t retail have two thralls? Except time shenanigans made the second one a female with a hard-on for Garrosh?.. or was that a different orc that had a hard-on for Garrosh… hmm…
It knowns that if it is Vanilla it would be Era that it is done on, and then we will have fighting between those who want Classic Era and those that want Classic+
What clickbait? It literally has hypothetical in the title… If you didn’t read out the full title that is on you, not me.
no it literally does not. it says (hypo) which for all anyone knows is a typo wanting to say “hype”
but seriously: Clickbait is a text or a thumbnail link that is designed to attract attention and to entice users to follow that link and read, view, or listen to the linked piece of online content, being typically deceptive, sensationalized, or otherwise misleading.
Blizzard announced Classic+
this statement is a misleading and deceptive piece of text designed to get people to come into this thread.
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