Hordos

Tl:dr: I support trying option 3 and see where it leads. Being forced to wait up to an hour a day for an instance you can't just skip if you want the best gear is just not ideal, something that was changed in the later patch (4.7) for a reason. I also think it would revive real ow pvp on 81 instead of killing it. For details see below. While I can understand that pvp focused players don't want to lose what little open world pvp is left on this server, I genuinely want to know where they can find real ow-pvp on garrison 81 during main EB time (18 - 21 servertime). During that time span the camp is constantly either green and filled with 3+ asmo alliances waiting for it to turn, or blue and filled with 3+ elyos alliances doing the same, only interrupted by maybe a minute or two when either faction gets their quests and enters at once. So that is one minute every 30 to 45 minutes where you can grief to your hearts desire and try to split alliances while for the rest of the time you just get spanked by a whole alliance in case you kill someone from their premade. I honestly don't get where there is satisfying pvp to be had. The opposide would be the case for a npc circle with instances always open. You'd give premades the possibility to split up again, not being forced to enter with all the other alliances due to the fact that they wouldn't be able to enter at all otherwise. That means less league-like zerging, more group / single-alliance focused pvp like it used to be before covid when the server only had 2 or 3 EB alliances on each side. Then you'd really have the aforementioned dynamic that well-coordinated alliances are able to enter while other alliances might be split.

Well Aegir, you really didn't look into the situation well enough then. Anyone selling "the rod" on elyos side is selling the "reliable rarified rod" that is needed for the morph of the TH/DLR weapon (which is pretty easy to make). That means you still need the event box or be incredibly lucky in TH/DLR. The crafted extendable that you mean needs the "katalium rarified rod". This rod is the result of a proc chain that needs around a thousand mythic weapon fluxes of every kind for a halfway decent chance and is, because of that, not a viable way to get an extendable. The server just has not enough fluxes for that to be made by more than one person, and that person would have to spend a fortune.

Hordos - Templar

I agree with what most of the others said. Nobody minds a good event. But this one just turns economy and balancing of the server from bad-ish to worst-it-has-been. If you want to do something for balancing, remove the temperings and add a bundle for lvl 70 manastones and combines maybe. The way to achieve temperings without the event (by farming instances) is alright. It should be hard af as it is the last thing anyone would normally farm for before they are done with their gear. Edit: Do it ASAP. Every minute that this continues the way it is now is one too much

Same here, ingame is Hordos