I feel like the first half of WotLK was the end “of the classic era”. Everything past Ulduar is when the game as a whole started to get very retail very fast.
Long story short. I quit when ToC came out in WotLK and paid ONLY one month sub to come back, beat lich king and to quit again with wrath’s excessive catch up gear mechanics. Their was just way too many easy faucets to be spun up to defeat him in a very short window.
TBC/Wrath were my favourite two expansions but i’d probably play up to and including MoP quite happily. I didn’t enjoy Cata as much as Wrath but the pvp in Cata/MoP were still in quite a good place.
classic is the waiting room for wotlk
I think they should go as far as people are willing to play. As long as they leave options for people to play in the xpac that they enjoy.
Honestly, I’d play anything before WoD.
But Wrath is my ideal.
I don’t want wrath
Yup, the problem with WoW, the elephant in the room, is linear vertical progression rather than a more lateral progression.
I don’t really care if they go that far or not, but I probably wouldn’t play Cata again if they did. I’m not sure about WotLK. Although I did enjoy Wrath, I don’t know if I’ll want to play through it again. For me TBC Classic is a “probably”, WotLK is a “maybe”, and Cata is a “probably not”.