Any hope for 5mans in TBC?

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I still love classic and personally not ready for TBC. I love the idea of classic forever. My mage will stay for sure, I am finally pretty good at the SM boosts, as well as RFC 1 pulls and SFK so I can always boost a new team. Around the 50s starting to farm some princess runs and ST and arena runs is when I plan to start playing them as a team. I am OK at mara 180-200 pulls.

Most people will move to TBC which is totally awesome. And realms will automatically transition to TBC. Those of us who choose to stay on classic forever, or clone some/all of our toons to classic forever, we'll be coming from many realms onto just a handful. I don't think it will ever be "dead" like people claim. I love the idea of getting full naxx gear on my main then doing it again. I easily see a few more years in classic, and so pumped to have the option of living in 3 separate expansions.

What the clone costs will ultimately determine how many characters I do it on. 10 bucks? No brainer, almost all my toons, 8 or 9. 40 bucks? Probably just my mage.

With regards to TBC dungeons, I think they'll hit hard. I'm a bit nervous about getting hard stuck on 5 man content and not being good enough to kill certain bosses. Losing movement was a big hit for me. Last boss of Shadow Labs, gauntlet in Shattered Halls (and last boss), 2nd last boss then Mini gauntlet in Mechanaar, etc. I used to have formations keybound for my teams on retail. We shall see.

I do plan on using click to move/IWT on melee and maybe driving from my resto shaman. Warlock isn't my ideal ranged class due to complexity in a round Robin rotation, but maybe I can play a shadowbolt spam spec a little early.