I say we just have a random meteor that crashes into the land (to keep it RPish and all) that destroys every overpowered item in the game. Then make all the weapons more balanced.
THEN we can start thinking about adding new weapons.
It seems to me like everybody and their mother's uncle's brother's niece wants the same crap. Eventually, everybody is going to look exactly the same, (except the people who KEEP winning events and getting the ubar rare items) no matter what their kingdom is. Which isn't cool.