I think rohan seriously needs to start appealing to new players once again. Usally a "free to play" game draws one of two crowds.
*1 kids that doesn't have parents handing them lots of money to throw onto a video game.
*2 Players like me who is living on their own and have enough bills (house payment, light bill, tv, phone, internet, car insurance, food etc) and just doesn't have enough left over to put it all on a video game.
Without new players coming into the game your left with only doing content for the players who have everything or have a lot of real money to give away that will not always be there.
I would suggest coming up with new forge / crafted blueprints for weapons that could closely compete with upgrades, of course upgrades still be the strongest and a reason to upgrade to them but not a huge gap like it is now. So that new players can see if I spend a lot of time playing the game I feel rewarded for that and could compete with the people spending thousands of dollars. How it is now players that don't spend a lot of money on the game and instead spends there time playing the game (which to me is more valuable) doesn't really feel rewarded for doing it. They are not near the same level because of the money requirement.
I have always wanted and still to this day would love one single old school server where level cap is 99. I would even be happy to pay $10 a month just to play on that server. It would also open up the door to new players because jumping into rohan how it is now you either have to spend thousands of dollars to compete with other players or spend like five years of your life grinding everyday to even come close. With a level 99 cap server players could start playing there and once they want more content (new dungeons, new items etc) they could start on the current rohan with a bit of experience and rps. Just one single level 99 cap server also could bring in quite a bit of money. With many 15 day costumes that give small stat boost but not game breaking, 15 day mounts, level 7 skill enhancement stones, forge stones (which a lot of people bought back in the day), stat / skill reset stones and the list can go on and on. Players would have a really good class but see someone else do good with this class so they would actually create a new character and start all over again with a different build. They would buy all the items / costumes etc that they bought for one character for each of there new characters. If you could imagine that with alooooot of players like it used to be it was seriously bringing in a stable amount of money every month.
I really hope that some serious thought goes into thinking about this because (I never thought i would say this again)I really do want to play rohan again I really do cause I have been the past few days but it just cost way to much money to get anywhere for a free to play game. I am sure it pushes away many new players that are thinking about trying rohan out.
I edited to add this part.
If you look at this from a business point of view you are competing with a huge library of free to play games that offer a lot more in the field of "free". So what would new players start playing rohan for?