No lower upkeep = agreed.
People respecing to stay under 26 = is this still not fixed? I thought they wanted to prevent it somehow...
OP/UP ranged = your suggestion sucks ball, cause lower tier armored guys would get raped faster, no no...and a lot of people use quite sucky gear in order to be somewhat fast, so this would not help them at all. I say revert it back to cut, make one or two bows pierce, as it was before. Now everyone and his mother is ranged almost, and even if they dont kill you, ocassional arrow can ruin your battling with some other people.
2H spam = most of guys i knew who played 2her do play cav or archer or shielder now, so really dont see the point in this. There are not that many 2hers (well, if you count polearms to 2h, then maybe), but that is different story.
Lack of diversity = ZILLIONS of armors and weapons, what more youd like? More? Just get urself some client based textures pack or whatever (hope something like this works in this
)
Reward the grind = it is already rewarded, even tho it would not be bad to get more skillpoints/att. points at lvl 33+ (like double skillpoint from 33 or so)
No offense meant, just my opinions