The way I see it, the P99 staff for the most part has accomplished their originally stated goal of a classic server up to velious, so where they take it now really is up to them. At this point I don't think abandoning the "it's classic" mentality would be a deviation from their original goal.
Personally what I would like to see is them finishing up the final velious era patches, and then looking at later expansions for inclusion with semi-custom content. In the short term, after the final patches, I think a big GM event where the server needs to work together to put the sleeper back to sleep would be cool. I'm just spit balling here, but maybe a war in WW where players align with in game factions like CoV and RoS to defeat the sleeper and whatever dragons are loyal to him. Maybe even get the giants and dwarfs put aside their differences with each other and the dragons for the greater good of Norrath. A giant ring war, or maybe a multi-zone thing where numerous guilds all need to kill the sleeper's lieutenants separately which would enable them to come together for the final fight. We've got some creative people on the staff, I'm sure they could think something up.
Longer term I'd really like to see a custom Luclin. It would probably be quite a bit of work, but I always thought Luclin could have been a better expansion if the Katta / Seru / SH factions played a bigger role. Add some custom quests, or armor quests. Turn those zones into something like Kael - a city for those allied, and a major raid zone for those opposed. Aside from LI Seru and the sigil earring question, I pretty much remember those zones being pretty "meh" for high end players.
That would be my ideal progression, but ultimately the staff needs to decide what they're up for. I wouldnt hold it against Nilbog and the other long term devs if they simply sick of working on this and want a break. From what little I know about Nilbog, my impression is that regardless of what we want he'll end up doing what he wants, so really all we can do is wait for them to decide.
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