Coming from someone that spent a large time of CBT 2 at max slayer value the only you drop when you do eventually die is money as of now. I would say lets save the speculation of dropping gear until it happens. This is one of those things that may not follow over because many people will be slightly upset and there may be a big argument about it. But as for PvP its part of the game in some areas to progress you need to PvP. especially guild related even for yourself. I highly doubt there will be PVE servers but it would be interesting to see what they will do. But early stages i do not think for once second there will be. It will depend on how the launch goes and how the player base builds because without a player base they would not be able to test things like this. But sadly so many of the events and guild events and open world and even pvp events. Thats a lot of pvp to potentially cut out of a game and it really wouldnt be the same game without all that. But this is just my opinion