I guess this post isn't really meant towards people who think PvP is fine. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion...and PvP is probably more enjoyable to some people than other people. But it seems like its NOT enjoyable to a lot of people...so I wanted to throw some brain storms out there to see what people think.
Note these are ideas off the top of my head...not carefully planned out changes that I'm going to rage about Turbine not adopting immediately. I'm more curious to see what other players think about different PvP concepts.
1) Immediate replenish (or increased rate of replenish) HP/MP regen upon release from brawl death.
2) A level 1-5, 3-7, 5-9, so forth area. Also maybe specific-class-only areas? This may not work due to multiclassing. Perhaps you can join higher level areas but not lower level areas. And maybe a free-for-all room like now.
3) Talking to NPC to get "spawned" into the area to prevent ranged from jumping down, killing, and jumping up to prevent reprisals.
4) Ranked matches with unique rewards. Team matches too? Maybe tournaments? The rewards and ranks would reinstall interest in PvP...and perhaps balance out skill levels a bit by utilizing the ranking systems.
5) Somehow balance out the caster/melee issues that many find? Perhaps by giving everyone a x5 or x10 bonus to HP in the brawl? This would make combat last longer and give more chance for action to happen. It would be easy to develop too, since no game chances need apply.
6) Something involving guilds. Guild vs. Guild may or may not work...especially given the differences in guild sizes...but again if you do rankings (and a weekly renown bonus due to rank?) it could work.
A lot of this may be resolved by the "arenas" that exist in game...but every time I talk to them nobody seems to be using the arena...brawl seems prevalent. Maybe by adding rankings and rewards (guild renown?) we could rekindle interest in the arenas and get things swinging again.
Anyways...just ideas. I know many would probably not work...but if anyone thinks I'm thinking along the right lines and would like to see PvP become more...well..featured I'd love to hear a reply!