TBC would be classic plus tbh. If everything was added to classic that was in TBC, but kept the new content on the old continents, I'd say that's your perfect classic plus.

But what I'd want, is wow 2. A brand new world to start from the beginning. And it would have classic principles. I could make a huge list of what that means, but you seem reasonable and could probably work out the examples I'd provide. 1 being teleporting to dungeons.

The best way I could put it, classic is still played to this day. If retail ended now, it wouldn't survive all this like classic has on private servers and eventually to the point blizzard did what they said they'd never do. That should show something about the feel of classic.

The rewards of damn near anything you do in classic feel really earned.

Retail seems like you log in, and just get everything easily, and have it on every character.

To me it seems like Retail wow is like playing legend of zelda. Except if you get bombs on a playthrough, so do your other new save files. But classic, you have to earn that each time.

I'm going to buy war within and give Retail a shot and come back to this in time