Rozamra

Ill just confess here that this is the reason I don't rank my other characters. Sure, I might play a game or two with my friends on a rare occasion. But the Elysium staff have made sure that I will not have any rewards for putting in effort there, thus I have decided to not put any effort in it for my alts. I think I'd be awesome to fight for some good rewards, until then, not ranking.

Ill lose most of friends if this goes through... and if that happens, I wont stay here either.

Pretty much. I never meant to imply I wanted a huge buff in current content difficulty - to balance vanilla content you would have to remove all but class buffs in raid etc. otherwise once you wipe you'd have to go out and get them again was the content balanced around full world buffs + consumables(I don't really care too much I just want a strong healthy pvp realm that encourages people) I know the queues are already a little meh for hordes, and they would for sure get far worse as you say should nothing be done... I hope they will figure out they should buff the sets before it annoys too many people.

Their plan is to have the R12-13 gear on Elysium buffed 2 weeks after AQ40 / When AQ40 has been cleared, at which point the set isn't good for anyone but mages. This is why so many casters have dropped out of ranking compared to melees - and I expect it to get worse as most casters drop off at a lower rank than melees as well. Personally I think ranking gear should be updated about 3-4 months into MC for optimally PvP community - it's incredibly fun with a huge pvp scene and it really draws good PR to the server. And MC is easy, that's how how it is, the only way to make MC challenging is to progressively make it's mechanics more punishing / dynamic with some higher HP to combat stronger gear. At the end of the day people just want to play with others - generally they dont want to play on a 500 pop server with shit items, they want to play on a high pop server with good rewards for "hard work". And I say generally, I know some people that really love playing on empty servers with 1-2 guilds struggling to raidlog but these are very few. Elysium did inform us they would keep the gear nerfed until AQ to make PvE more diffuclt at the cost of discouraging PvP before they opened the servers.