What are pros and cons for each?
Can you give arguments for any of these options?
Ofc all hypothetical, nothing is confirmed blablabla 
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People dream too small.
We had so many people wanting duel speccs etc … Think bigger! Just throw in Chromie in Caverns of Time and make her able to “lock” you, or open a rift, to whatever version of the triologi you like - with things like talents/rep gain/gear and spells (and portals to Outlands/Northrend) beeing unavilable in the “wrong” rift/cave/version. Problem solved, raid with the same character 7 days a week and enjoy life as “one” ^^
After all, we all know Chromie started this. Ethernal Triologi.
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I’d rather not have either for eternity, since I’d just grow bored of them.
TBC > Classic however though… simply due to one thing.
No more world buffs.
If I was forced to choose one… that would be the reason alone.
I love TBC, classic was fun… but with the world buff meta(I don’t get them personally) - it just becomes so boring, since everyone loses their motivation once dying in a raid and losing their world buffs.
Since we all know…
World buffs = Most of your damage.
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Endless cycle of Vanilla - TBC - WOTLK would my preference.
Eternal Warcraft!
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I’d go eternal classic with fresh development in line with the classic/vanilla spirit. That Vanilla plus option.
Waiting to see if that happens (I know some say it won’t but until we don’t know…well we don’t know).
I’d like a TBC in a couple of months and then Wrath 2 years after that. Then I can go on a break for another decade or more 
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These 3 expansions were Warcraft.
When the world got obliterated, an April Fool’s panda joke becomes lore, we take time travel through alternate universes and we have gone into the afterlife with an angels vs vampires Korean RPG theme, you have to wonder if this is still the same franchise.
Simple fantasy with war and crafting, that’s what Warcraft was meant to be.
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hmmm a very good question indeed
The answer has already been given: eternal Classic>TBC>WOtLK cycle.
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Over time we might get to refer to these cycles as ERA’s.
Right now we are in the first ever cycle, a legendary one. Lets call it era of the Mammoth.
After this might come era of the Kraken, and so on.
With all the problems we had I wouldn’t want to replay classic.
TBC on the other hand has much more replayability with heroic farm for badges, 7 raids and each class being “viable”.
But of course everything will get boring if you play long enough so I’m not really sure how they can keep players stuck on a single expansion.
This might be the way, but with shorter timespans, similar to how we got ladder resets in Diablo 2 and ppl still play it to this day.
What keeps bringing people back is character progression. Everyone enjoys gear upgrades and progressing through raids, but if you clear everything easily (similar to how it’s now on classic due to world buffs) people lose interest.
World buffs are one of the worst things for sure.
My UI got broken because of a crash but I can’t fix it right now because I’m fully buffed with DMF. My friend and alt needs enchants but I can’t do them because I’m buffed. I need to check some stuff but I can’t. I want to pvp on my main during the week but I can’t.
Basically you can’t play your main raiding character for anything else than raids because of world buffs. It’s so heartbreaking.
Another reason why TBC will be better is arenas and actual skill-based pvp. Not this premades stomping randoms or some classes oneshotting people using 1 million different engineering items.
Classic was a great experience but its greatness mostly comes from the levelling and the first social interactions with other players, finding a guild, friends, server wide events like scarab lord gank fiesta etc. once you get to the very late end-game its much, much worse than TBC.
Classic-BC-Wrath then put every character in a permament server of the expansions and start a fresh classic-bc-wrath
Would be awesome
Yep, I personally never really log on for classic anymore.
I do love PvP, but classic PvP is just whoever can premade better / use more items.
World buffs making so much of your damage, only to lose it and everyone being disappointed.
TBC will have it’s own unpleasant metas, and in two years people will demand wotlk for the same reason. A ton of people who praised classic as the best thing ever later complained about world buffs and mage boosts.
As for the topic - eternal isn’t a great option. I moved to an eternal wotlk server when cata launched, and it slowly died out in 3 years. Everyone had already cleared everything, and eventually left. Eternal server for pvp only can work out much better I guess.
I wouldn’t be playing TBC forever once the last raid comes out either.
The best part about TBC is that we have no world buffs and dying is a lot less costly.
It just becomes stale, as you said… “eternal servers” slowly die out… as you know… there’s just no fresh content to keep players entertained.
If we had fresh servers starting on phase 1 again every 2 years or so, it might work out… but overall, most people won’t stick to Naxx for years.
If you’re asking for TBC to replace Vanilla, then tbh you are missing the whole point about Classic - it was supposed to be there forever, not some re-run of retail where everyone is forced to move over to the new expansion or quit.
I’ve always said that they should keep TBC and Vanilla online, permanently, and give people the choice to move IF THEY WANT TO. If they don’t want to, let them just stay on Vanilla - which is what I plan to do.
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Classic Vanilla forever or Classic Vanilla, TBC and then Wrotlk but no more.
TBC should only be transient IMO!
Eternal TBC.
Reason = my Classic main is feral druid. 1 year of bullying and benching was enough 
it will be my turn to bully poor rogues / warriors. Muhahahaha
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Not sure why we can’t have all 3 up at the same time, eventually
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