I disagree that wipe is a fail.
Its a chance!
But I agree on most of what you said.
Some things already work well - farm in Knight Castle seems ok. Upgrade rates arent to hard etc..
But I wanna add an example to support your post:
Today I tried to farm BUS and got a lot of hints and farmed a lot of mobs but nothing dropped BUS.
So I asked 3 GMs and none of them could give the right answer, where BUS drop
That means...they havent even tried to farm or upgrade a single Item!So how can they run a server if no one from staff tries to enter server like any other newbie player? Without KC and without buying full gear from PUS.
I really encourage all staff members to do so.
Only this way you will find out what people really need.(its like politicians making decisions without even knowing how normal people live...)
You would find out that its hard to farm trials...or BUS... that Juraid doesnt work etc..