I think your missing the bigger opportunity of a new server to do something different aside from just making manastone's and masks overcamped...
They could always do a new server with different / new rules just to make it more interesting, some ideas for a different rule-set server...
#1) Actual progression timeline -- a server that follows the same time schedule as the normal servers releases of expansions, basically everything the same just no huge time spans mucking about kunark
#2) All gear is No drop + no MQing -- aka NBG server, plat is nigh useless and the only way to get ahead is to help each other out, the Tunnel has been rendered obsolete, no corpse'ing lore items to sell later here!
#3) The race to apocalypse -- Server is progressed by raid target kills, and reset when all velious raid targets are downed and Kerrafrym is released. (basically an ever-churning server, if you roll a character on this server you do so knowing you don't get to keep your stuff, this server is all about pushing the limit on killing raid targets fast) Guilds that reset the server get some kind of Hall of fame status or something special I don't know
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