the amount of time it takes me to come up with such a post isn't much and certainly doesn't require me any effort, i don't have the first clue on how to fix any of it so i result to making a post where i point out where i see things are wrong so people like jessie j can figure out a way to fix it as i just can't. primarily because i don't even play the game and wouldn't know the first thing about what i'd what to see in a game i don't even play, i feel that would be a task for somebody that does.
(note that it isn't because of anything of this server or w.e, it's just that OSRS bores the hell out of me and i don't find servers like it to be enjoyable.)
secondly i don't pk a lot if at all, i'm a pvmer and as i've stated before that part of the server is atleast pretty good so far and i expect a great deal more of that eventually. that all seems fine but it's dominating in terms of profit in comparison to pking. i've told you before that there has to be enough incentive for people to go out of their way of pvming for bm/gp and go pking instead. right now thats practically non existent.
i don't know how to fix that since you just lack the pkers to tell you how and what they want. good thing clanwars is sorted and i do hope those pures show up at some point and not have it be some fake promise to shift your priorities. they're probably your best bet.
you need to look for a balance between pvm and pvp, have pvm more profitable when you get good drops but have pking as some sort of stable flow of BM over the same amount of time. making pking more profitable the longer you do it also helps a great deal like increasing cash or BM from killstreaks or BH emblems. also encourage more risk for more reward in some way, just having ppl in free items isn't fun and theyre easily outmatched by people with better items. it deters them from pking as they'll feel they can't compete or progress to keep pking since they need to kill people to get the BM to upgrade their gear through pking and this way that just won't happen.
thirdly keep going with your ideas, the concept behind the ele was pretty solid, i liked the idea of it however guaranteeing drops anywhere just hits everything where it isn't guaranteed. as i mentioned before that people just afk all the time. maybe talk to those people, ask them why aren't they doing something else than just afk in edge bank for hours. see what they want to do and to think of something to accomodate to their "needs". it sucks that people just cba to tell you in a somewhat broader way as i do but i think they just expect you to do things all the time because a lot of content is still missing.
i can be wrong about this but it's leaning pretty hard into the pvm area therefore it seems that pvp is getting left behind somewhat which may have something to do with you pushing alot of small adjustments/additions with a major update which can potentially hurt the game in its progression because of the long waits for small changes.
i hope this helps, regardless i appreciate the reply