There actually is no need to farm whatsoever, especially since although the mobs die in 1 hit, the drop is very low....all you need to do is be logged in. Vote rewards are all you need to get gear. And the silly thing is, you already get <shadow> top gear when you log in, so if it weren't for the .dressme everyone would look identical. Most people don't use it anyway, and they do look alike.
And since everything is so easy, they decided to make one thing ridiculous - noblesse. You don't get the letter in shop like any other high rate server, you get lunargent and hellfire oil...lol.
I like easy farm servers, but this is ridiculous..I don't want to look the same as everyone else from day 1 'til server dies.
And no, it's not a good idea to make the server non-custom. You have 500 other servers for that.
I would suggest making the server a bit harder, but not with low drops...just harder mobs, and ffs more gear variety!!