Somehow, i bet most old school player will go with “Rank 13-14 set + weapon”, or any tier from that time, since they are just that iconic (for some class more then other).
Still, cant help but like some of the newer set aswell, still, if they where to add new HD model of all the vanilla sets, i’m sure we will see nothing but those set on player.
The PvP set screamed “faction pride”, while the vanilla tier set was purely class fantasy armor sets.
Nowdays, we get the same set for horde, alliance and tier, its just dif colors, alliance = blue, horde = red, lfr, normal and hc each have thier own color aswell, and then some “more detailed” armor for mythic and 2k+ rated PvP’er.
Still, as more and more race get added and more tier gear, i cant but help trying to “farm” that look that goes well with the class and race (hell, even adding in a special mount for it to make it perfect), so, its not like i have a “go to” armor set for any of my “4+ of each class” alt army, they each have thier own set.
So, with that in mind, i cant really say there is 1 expansion i pick more then others (i just love the vanilla once, tho, i bet they are the one i use the least) … but hey, thank god we can use whatever we want!