Just plain old vanilla for me thanks.
Retail has lost its rpg identity and has become a seasonal lobby game now. To be completely honest, I’m not enjoying SoD either. Plain old vanilla really is the best version of the game.
Sorry for stating the obvious but I needed to get that off my chest.
Honorable mention for hardcore. It wasn’t half bad.
Just need a fresh TBC now
I agree…
BC was better than WOTLK
I’ll die on that hill too.
Like, I agree, but who’s the official that made it official? I demand names and credentials!
You know, prior to WotLK Classic I would have disagreed with you here… but WotLK just didn’t land for me. It was too close to retail for my liking and if I wanted that, I’d just go play retail.
I still vibe on Vanilla but TBC was a pretty solid iteration, especially in terms of the classes and how they play.
Me too man, I felt the same way. I’m essentially a “wrath baby” as it was called back in the day.
My biggest classic wow regret is letting my level 60s progress to the next expansions. I never should’ve done it.
I was blinded by the nostalgia
Also, stance dancing/wep swapping should have never been removed.
Using different abilities in different stances should have never been removed…
I got an Alliance Paladin and a horde hunter at 58 waiting for the dark portal to open.
Until then I’m hanging on Grob.
Even then I think I’m gonna hang on Grob. 
Any and all motivation I had for TBC got stalled out entirely with the lack of communication by Blizzard on whether or not TBC will be Era or not. I’d really like to do some TBC again but I just can’t bring myself to bother if they’re going to get force-moved to WotLK.
The right choice!
You’re on Alliance, right? If you need some bags and/or some starter gold to help with training as you level, ping me on the Legacy discord. I don’t know your Grob character, but I’m sure we can figure it out there.
I enjoyed WOTLK slightly more than BC, but overall I liked both.
Each of those expansions should get their own Era.
Best for you? Definitely. “The Best” not everyone will agree, but so long as you enjoy it, who cares?
Thanks mate. I put a message in general chat, I didn’t know your discord tag. My Grob Paladin name is my server name there.
I’ll never turn down bags! Anything is better than the 8 slots I’m working with right now
Grobb horde needs players.
Due a dead HC too and the wizardry of free character migrations there’s a baby Tsataga in Requiem also.
You’ll see me leveling there.
please let us have the burning crusade era.
By a massive margin.
I still enjoy retail, I play with my wife mostly.
Classic hits just right though. Mmm.
it truly was.
It wasn’t until I played Wrath the second time that I realized retail actually started in Wrath.
I did some research to see how true it is, and there’s some supporting evidence when it comes to philosophical design changes that took place in Wrath, and the behind the scenes business acquisitions and dealings relating to Vivendi, Blizzard, Activision.
Additionally, the subscriber chart that people reference for Wrath being the “peak” is nearly universally misread in my belief. The chart actually shows that Wrath is the first expansion where new subscriptions fail to replace outgoing subscriptions at a rate greater than 1. If we had both graphs for new subs vs outgoing subs, I suspect the actual peak is late TBC/early Wrath, with a small respite for the ICC patch because it was quite popular, and is actually when I resubbed after skipping TOGC
How is it “official” lol.
Classic is a great game… but NGL the community absolutely obliterated the game.
The ultra mega sweats who think their ability to press 2 buttons better than everyone else are super cringe…
And honestly it’s a massive turn off… because 30-40% of the playerbase is like that.
Also BC sucks. For story and aesthetics it’s cool. In terms of it being a fun expansion to actually play and not hate your life? Negative captain
Because I say it is.
Retail is that way 
I think that’s a plausible observation. Shifts in preference and attitude are seldom instantaneous so the cause of that peak was building for some time. I know I’ve certainly played expansions I didn’t enjoy long past what anybody would consider a proper expiry date because I didn’t want to lose my connection to the community I had at the time.