Just some ideas.

[cbk1994]

Paraphrasing a bit to address your general points.

Originally Posted by Tashkin

I believe ALL items on the server should be obtainable by questing, shopping, blacksmithing, alchemy, and farming. There should not be any one of a kind items on there server. All that does it ruins the economy and messes up the balance in the game.

I disagree. There's nothing wrong with there being extremely rare and valuable items as long as their stats are comparable to those of cheaper items. Gold sinks are good, and without them you'd just have people with tons of money (diamonds/EC) and nothing to spend them on.

I feel that every ones armor and weapons should be reset back to normal, no upgrades/blessings on them at all. I feel that all IWDs, EAs, EW, and other weapon bonus' should be removed from the server completely. You should have to use the blacksmith to upgrade your gear (with a chance of losing you item if it fails). This will help keep the server balanced. You should be required to have a certain upgrade scroll/item for armor and your weapons (obtainable by questing, shopping, or farming). I feel that items should require a certain level to be able to use them. When upgrading items the required level should be increased as well.

This sounds a lot like preparing weapons right now. I don't see any reason to get rid of IWDs and such; rather, I think they should be less rare so that they're easy for new players to get ahold of as well. The combat system needs to be rebalanced so that it's based more on skill than items. AC should be taken out of PvP entirely.

[There should be more dungeons/places to train]

Agreed.

I feel that all gear up to mid-high grade should be craftable in the blacksmith shops. As stated before items should have a level requirement. This would give players a reason to play because they would have something to look forward to. It would also keep the economy stable. Armor/Weapons can be sold to the players that do not wish to gather the required items (sold by other players of course).

Level requirements tend to just keep new players weak and old players strong.

Farming for items should not be impossible to find items, but it should not be extremely easy either. Monster on the server already drop specific items, mostly worthless. The crypt will be my example for this feature. I have completed the crypt atleast 50 times and every time it drops 1 black cape and an essence. The drop rate is way to low. There should be a reasonable drop rate depending on the item. Dark Flame for example, only worth its look, should probably have a spawn rate of 1:8 times or so. I am sure the players on the server could come up with some reasonable drop rates for different items if these features were to be added.

The spawn rate you quoted on the darkflame is way too high—keep in mind Kale and I have done the crypt almost 250 times (and only gotten prizes a couple times, most during Halloween when the drop rate is increased)—but I agree that monsters should be dropping more items.

[Shops should sell more stuff, have more reasonable prices]

I think it's more important to add a wider diversity of items. I don't think shops are a huge issue right now.