Thx for you deep thought.. Yes i agree, many ideas i proposed are kinda borderline and maybe not worth it.. but as you mentioned the core of the message is that the PVP system is unbalanced, unfun and very empty. To me it feels like to play a Single player RPG with Marketplace, where i progress my character just to show off with others.
Talking about solutions, i thought in the past days, that a very small solution that would highly increase the PVP quality would be this:
Removing the Mono sets (Sets that gives you advantage against a specific class)
And merge PVM and PVP sets into a single set.
Many people said to me, that this would be a business killer.. but in my opinion there would be many other ways to earn money from players, making 10 different sets for every specific thing is not the only one.
Also, someone said to me.. You can't really combine both sets, because the PVP and PVM sets also depends by the random bonuses you put into that (talking about the 5 extra bonuses)
So, i thought. 1 set for every stage of the game, like lv50, lv80, lv100 etc.. as many as you want..
Every set contains the bonuses to be able to farm that PVE map inside the built in bonuses.. and you allow the random bonuses to only be PVP bonuses..
By removing Mono sets and merging PVP and PVE sets, you would fix these core problems in PVP:
1. The fact that inside a PVE map, someone can just swap to a PVP set and one shot you.. so, at this point you have to decide.. do i keep farming? or do i put on my PVP set? (Boring af) while with a single set i can farm while beating someone ass up.
2. The massive PVP becomes more interesting, since there would be no one that one shot you just because he used a mono set that gives +50% dmg to shaman or something like that.. idk but to me it sound so unbalanced, isn't it obvious?
Just throwing my thoughts out to compare my idead with other people..
Respongind to the fact that you said, people don't build M2 servers for what it would be nice to be, but based on how much money they can do... I genuinely think that by improving the PVP system with easy adjustments like this, people can also improve their incoming.. because you're offering a much better experience that in my opinion is gonna bring so many players to you. (Me included)
P.S. My english is kinda bad, i'm not referring to you personally, when i say you i mean the hypothetical person that would do this xD