I figured I would throw this question out to the community for all those who left, or are considering leaving WoW. What would bring you back to WoW?

These are some things that would seal the deal for me:

1) Hero classes for all (except Death Knights) classes to evolve into
-- a. Maybe a level 70 chain quest that will take the average player on average 6 hours to accomplish
-- b. Evolving into the hero class is optional but comes with benefits
2) A fresh and new look into PvP
-- a. Broaden the exp gained through PvPing
-- b. More world PvP with objectives, assassinations, and rewards
3) Gear customization (optional)
-- a. Dyes
-- b. Add crafted features to armor (e.g. more spikes, knobs, frilly things if need be)
4) Meaningful crafting!!!!

Creativity costs money, especially to implement it. Even with some of these features looked into in more depth could really turn into its own game. Maybe it’s just me, but I think it would add a little more variety into the game, giving those who left something be proud of and return to WoW.

Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street and Tom "Kalgan" Chilton being fired for beginners.

Team based rankings for bg's for WSG, AB and EotS. Not some half assed attempt to rank people in pugs that it looks like Blizzard is going to do.

Proper raid content without "hard modes" that consist of you have to kill a boss standing on one leg, blindfolded while yodeling christmas carols.

Challenging but interesting 5 man content.

Bringing a bit of immersion and adventure back into the game.

 The only way i would come back to WoW is if they released a classic server so that i can emjoy myself with 1-60 again the only time i actually enjoyed the game!

Originally posted by chunky_slice

Proper raid content without "hard modes" that consist of you have to kill a boss standing on one leg, blindfolded while yodeling christmas carols.

Haha I love it.

Essentially nothing, but I'll play along. 

1.  Remove Arenas.  Completely.  Forever. 

2.  Blizzard start acting like lore meant a damn, like they used to.

3.  (Impossible) Replace the vast majority of the sycophantic, me-me-me whining assholes that currently play, with people I could stand to communicate with for more than a few minutes at a time. 

Honestly, #3 is the biggie for me.  I don't have big problem with the game itself, but it's the people that play it that made me cancel after 3 years.  Just got to be too much for me, and the quality of people playing has gotten worse, IMHO.

There is just too much things i could list that is keeping me away from reinstalling Wow, fixing up all the addons and look for a new guild again that would make me come back if fixed/changed. However if they did revert the front burst damage back to Retribution where is lived for like almost 5 years I'd strongly consider coming back.

Nothing will draw me back to WoW, for me that chapter closed a while back.

*New classes
*All BGs playable in the lower level range slots too.
*Unique/New server concept.

Originally posted by Zorndorf

The only sycophantic - me-me-me assXXXX" I meet are mostly situated in the forums. Impossible to communicate with when talking about the single most succesful video game ever made in the last 30 years.

sorry zorn, better go check your facts.  the Sims currently holds the title of most succesful video game of all time.

but as to your other points... the arena only helps balance the arena.  datamining is only useful if it is in the setting you want data on.  case in point: Drinking in the arena.  they couldn't balance that, but the problem was only in the arena.  if the arena was a great tool to balance the whole game, why doesn't it take 4 seconds to get full benifit from drinks in PvE or BGs?

and while you like to say "so called WoW killers" so much, plenty of other games are far better balanced than WoW.  and they don't have to force a form of the game that most of the population dislikes on people.

A server in my time zone. (Atlantic Time)

I like to raid. But I have a job and I can't stay up raiding for that extra hour.

Besides I think a good amount of people wouldn't mind raiding a hour earlier.

 The removal of all bg's, And thereby succesfully bringing back the awesome outdoor PVPness that was Hillsbrad Foothills..

 Classic server with original level 60 spells/abilities. Basically a reversion back to the second patch before Burning Crusade. Also, no more tweaks on that server. Keep it the way it is, no content/spell/skill updates.

Oh, and it would have to be free to play for me to come back also.

Nothing. I just cancelled again after re-upping a month ago and I just can't bring myself to play WoW anymore. I think I'm just way too burned out on it. In fact, I pretty much burned out on all fantasy MMORPGs. I'm looking forward to all the upcoming allternatives.

Having things such as wowarmory and the ability to see exactly what every character has equiped and what your stats are.  Also the ability to not see what a players stats are in-game.  This has caused so much grief with wanting to go on a raid and getting turned down because of 'Gear Check' and stuff like that.  It turns anything you might want to PUG into rejection.  Yeah I know it is part of the game, but it's just something that I feel needs to be removed to give others more chances to try and get into groups they might not normally be able to.

Elitest Jerks FTL.

Originally posted by Leucrotta

Nothing will draw me back to WoW, for me that chapter closed a while back.

+1

Originally posted by Sunioj

Having things such as wowarmory and the ability to see exactly what every character has equiped and what your stats are.  Also the ability to not see what a players stats are in-game.  This has caused so much grief with wanting to go on a raid and getting turned down because of 'Gear Check' and stuff like that.  It turns anything you might want to PUG into rejection.  Yeah I know it is part of the game, but it's just something that I feel needs to be removed to give others more chances to try and get into groups they might not normally be able to.

Elitest Jerks FTL.

Actually, I disagree with that part I highlighted. I do not think its part of the game; it is only part of the game is you associate with the people who play like that. Nobody in my guild cares about gear checks and DPS checks and all of that. We have one group, our lead progression group, that requires a certain level of gear....which is natural for raid progression purposes (we have over 400 players and run about 10 rads a week of various levels and difficulty).

As a matter of fact, if I group with people outside of the guild and they bring up gear checks or level or DPS or whatever, I simply tell them that they can either take me at my word (My main is a resto shaman) that I am a good healer or not. If they are going to pull this elitist gear check crap, then I will find another group. I don't put up with it and nobody has too either.

1) Removal of the Arena

2) Termination of Kalgan and Ghostwalker

3) A promise, in writing, that PvP balancing will never affect PvE content

4) A stricter adherence to lore

5) stricter policing of the open chat channels

6) For the forums, ONE login per account. No switching around names/avatars to

7) stricter (MUCH) moderation of the forums

8) removal of the ability to link achievments

9) removal of the armory, or at least make it an option

WoW is potentially a good game.  Too bad it's run like a College frat house....

nothing could possibly bring me back to this wretched game, nothing! 

Although i still play once in a while my account will terminate on the 21 oh this month and i don't see how I could continue playing this game. The game took a course that i personally dont agree and above that i feel tired and bored of the game, also because i played it for 4 years now, so, i dont see what could possibly bring me back, nothing probably...

At this point nothing - I'm through while the whole DIKU/EQ/WoW MMO model.

But in all likelihood I'll be there with the rest of you playing Blizzard's new MMO.