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contests including concept drawings for motifs or mythic item names and stats would probably be much better.

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Make a new town (level locked) for lvl50+ only. In this town have whatever missions (I dont play them) and the same number of dungeons as in the 1st town

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Thanks Biz for pointing out the elephant in the room. What DR needs most right now is more PVE content. The content we have currently (112 instanced/explorable areas including boss encounters plus HDoL)took 13 months and counting to develop and release with an existing base of art assets. Effectively doubling the game content could reasonably be expected to take at least another year to implement. You are thinking in the right direction Biz, but thinking a little too big.

So I'm gonna play a little minigame here called "If I had Stephen's job..."

(New from Maxxis, it's "Sim Game Developer!")

Here's what I'd do with a game that has passed three significant milestones. Six months each of closed beta testing and limited invite only release and a public release.

First: I'd back burner any plans for PVP content for 4-6 months. The core of the game is casual/co-op PVE, build that up first. We've got a PTS, let's use it to test PVP until it's perfect before it goes live.

Second: Keep to the monthly props with every other month being a "content" prop and the off month for bug fixing, quest additions, and UI/quality of life fixes.

Third: On an eight week schedule over a six month period, add 3 new full dungeon sequences(13 explorable areas and a boss encounter) with new tilesets, npcs and mobs.

The new dungeons would be included as follows: Mutanous Malaise(30-50)>>New Dungeon1(40-100)>>Embercore Path(50-100)>>New Dungeon2(60-100)>>Shadows Embrace(70-100)>>New Dungeon 3(80-100)

This would give players above level forty 78 areas in which to gain experience along with three new boss encounters. I know this would be pushing things to try to get done in six months, more realistic might be 8-10 months. This scenario of course is based on the ability to add more contract artists/modelers, which means the marketing kids gotta start pushing the game out in new ways to keep the revenue from memberships flowing in. Of course the marketing costs money too...somebody needs to do some gold farming

Of course I might be thinking too big as well.