Right, my two cents on this issue,
i have just come back to game, after not enjoying the awakening, and leaving 7 years ago after playing since beta, i have killed all epics, own all castles as clan leader and as a elite clan member, and have been hero multiple times on a few different classes. so i know about old retail.
and as i am new i am not high enough to see end game, how ever here is my opinion.
1. adena and common drops (basically anything that isn't gear,) need to be increased, by at lest 200% because vip 7 still gives shity drop chances.
2. PK, system, easy make them log in in floren and not be able to port,
3.give high level areas a re-vamp, eg there was always a farming and xp area, for each xp bracket
4. open up shutgart areas and make them 80+ same with fields of whispers
5.raid bosses need to be the same, we had alts to farm ant queen with c grade, orphen and core we never bothered with, but baium tessa and anthrasa we did before elements with stat and weapons weaker than i have seen on this server, hell we even kill valakas before we could glitch it, unless they have been made alot stronger i dont see any issues
6.oly. 100% agree with the NO buffs and NO event box items, hats weapons augments are all ok, but some of the items like the agathions - some talismans - some gems take it away from skill and into the credit card. i have always liked if you can farm it, its allowed, how it should be.
7.events. i have yet to see one, i see ncsoft gambling, on things made to take your money and give a very low change of getting anything you need, yes this last event has brought the price of cloth down to a dencent level, but a grade weapons are pointless because of the price to sa them, s i imagine is even worse.
in conclusion: without a way to make adena this game will be afk bots, trying to sell billions of adena to next to no-one, because nostalgia for a games this doesnt even represent wont cut it