And yet rogues don't need balancing. According to mass belief. Uh-huh.
Because this post is totally about rogues, Want a video of Mages one shotting people too?
Anyways, the damage reduction should be implemented and it wouldn't be as bad, but giving people all level 1 weapons etc is stupid in a gear grind game.
They just need to balance out the damage inside arena and siege mainly, if you're low level/low hp you're gonna have a bad time, that's the jist of it and it should stay that way or 90% of the people still around who just siege will probably quit, considering that the reason that a lot of people gear is for siege. Either that or they won't pay for the game anymore, I mean I'd support having two seiges, one that was geared and one gearless, but trying to change the game is not the way to go.