Yeah - Hellfire having a raid, multiple endgame crafting mats and two world bosses is going to make it popular pretty much for the length of TBC Classic, which will make it a gank-fiesta.
Fresh TBC servers.
https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/tbc-fresh-start-servers-only
Think like a business person running a company with main, perhaps the only, purpose is to make as much money as possible and the answer to the question is obvious. People keep trying to ignore that simple basic reality.
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4 combined with 3. Thatās the only reasonable choice that gives everyone what they want.
They will do tbc than wrath, theres no point in classic+ its just another MMO they have to keep up with and will just turn into retail. If you want classic + Go play retail.
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Fresh servers are a bad idea, stop promoting your garbage. You should hit 60 before advertising for ANOTHER 1-60 gameplay
#1 is a pipe dream and a bad idea
#2 is what Classic should be
#3 is probably not in the cards but you never know
#4 is inevitable
I wouldnāt come back of any of them, but 2 and 4 are the best options.
WTH is classic plus anyway? Who made that up? And didnāt a blue post say they wanted to keep classic like a museum automatically ruling out character copyās to TBC classic?
I donāt think it really matters what most people want. I think the only thing is what blizzard will do. What is easier and make them the most money? TBC and Wrath.
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Plus, I would wager that the majority of players want TBC and Wrath (the most popular expansions in the gameās history), or are at least agnostic towards it, over a nebulous Classic+ that no one can agree on what it would look like, pulled together by the Blizzard of 2020.
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I want Cata. Thatās my favorite Expac. But, of course they will do all expansions. Why wouldnāt they?
The main thing that Iād like to see is what I have always wanted, a way to experience end game of each expansion, and a way to upgrade to the next.
Idk why with WoW they decided to have it be a game where you didnāt have the option to opt out of the expansion, but had the pre-patch thrust upon you whether you wanted it or not, and obsoleted the current content. Thatās not my personal preferred way.
I played Diablo II LoD before I ever played Diablo II, but was happy to have an upgrade path, and a way to play both. Thatās what Iād like to see for WoW. Iād love to have āforever Legionā characters, as much as Iād love to have āforever Vanillaā characters (actually more, because Vanilla is my least favorite among the expansions).
If they offered each of the expansions, Iād definitely have at least 1 character for each of them, and most likely at least 1 in BiS gear for each spec.
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Classic + will just turn into Retail.
Because I do think that Retail is what most players want. From what Iāve seen many of not most of the players who play Classic, also play Retail.
Even if the people on the forums are the vocal minority, talk of Retail still is common place here, in the Classic forums.
Option Whatev: Let Blizz decide how to setup secure play without taking forever to unravel old code issues and take what we can get (likely fresh servers followed by crossover servers) 
Gimme option 2, with the ability to transfer my Classic character to the new TBC server.
Personally Iād like a mix between 1 and 2, although I also want to experience some of TBC. I donāt see why Blizzard canāt do both (outside of resources they want to spend.)
To be honest, as I continue to play classic, I kind of want this too.
Iāve no doubt some expansions were less popular than others, but just because they release a WoD classic for instance doesnāt mean it needs to have the same number of servers as a WoW vanilla classic. In extreme cases, 1 or 2 servers would be enough.
Hell, as you go forward itās probably a lot less work to emulate the servers, as they kept more of the data.
I never played Legion, because WoD left a bad taste in my mouth and I wanted to focus on university the year it came out. I stuck to my guns the whole expac and didnāt touch wow again until JUST after BFA came out.
Iād like to see what I missed.
They will keep giving us expansions until one fails to make enough money. Youāll probably get Cata. Iāll probably play it to because thatās the one expansion I didnāt play. Cata might be the last though as it doesnāt seem to be very popular.
āCrossover servers?ā What are those?
I enjoyed Cata a lot too, especially the heroics that had actual mechanics.
However, by the time Cata rolls around they would have gone through Classic Vaniila, TBC and Wrath in addition to retail. Running one game alongside retail is reasonable, possibly two, and Wrath being the gameās peak makes a lot of sense to do that one too from a nostalgia perspective. But Cata might be one too many, especially consider itās where subs began to fall (and never stopped) as well as the design beginning to truly approach retail such as locking you into a specific spec to the end of your talent tree before you could begin to branch out.
tbc and wrath but they leave out heirlooms and dungeon finder out of wrath thanks for coming to my ted talk
Classic+ with new content and rebalancing is the best possible option.
But Blizzard canāt pull it off. Blizzard isnāt Jagex. If you play Old School Runescape at all you know what was needed for it to be successful, and you also know that Blizzard doesnāt currently have it.