Neither PvP nor PvM could be upgraded in the old server. But it was fine because, unlike this one, things were thought through and every level bracket needed good items. Your PvP items - ebony earrings, heaven's tear bracelet etc were good for lvl 39-79 players. Level 92 weapons (at +9 they're level 92 not 90) could be okay compared to dark dragon pvp weapons +4 (that's how much you could upgrade if you wanted to stop at lvl 96 pvp). Aqua armors were the last pvp armor so on that note we were okay, until nemere gear you could still rock a lvl 60 helm and quillin shoes. for 96 pvp people had ruby/emerald/garnet/sapphire earrings, necklaces, bracelets.. and so on.. That's why I said in another thread that their MMR based dojang is stupid because it doesn't force players to choose a level bracket and so most pvp items that exist right now on the server are going to be - you guessed it, useless.
Same for pvm, soul crystal eq was perfect from 62 to 105 until you got nemere pvm earrings, and way later we got pvm necklaces and bracelets. 75 weeapons were fine until lvl 105, but later on they added 95 weapons. As always, the players that played the old wom know so much more than the new guys. Wanna bet nobody that played old wom evolved a 65 weapon?
I'll never understand why they gatekeep information and change things that worked just fine... why "fix" something that ain't broken...
And as the old server, once they'll add the dark dragons map and you'll see you can't evolve your stuff, players will leave, just like on the old server XD