I think they need to at least make the guards have a chance of respawning at level 90. The first time you kill them the chance starts at zero, each time after it goes up 5 %. eventually you get a group of level 90 elite guards that slaughter you. The pve server was just a counterpoint to those calling for pvp servers. War mode was a good start, but they never cleaned up the loopholes.
I would level on a server that had zero chance of being effected by pvp.
Its not even the risk. I dont want anything to do with wpvp. at all. I know the devs made warmode and got rid of pvp servers for one main reason. To get rid of the need to keep one separate codebase for pvp servers. to save $$$$. Thats why they will never make just 1 server that is pvp(or just pve). The devs as usual, did warmode halfassed. If you are flagged for any reason, you should be in warmode. You should not be getting pvp rewards out of full pvp. If you accidentally flag, you can unflag from warmode. I cant think of any reason you should be able to cheese pvp and get pvp rewards without actually being in pvp. I find it amusing how many people blew up at the thought of a pve only server but find a pvp only server ok.