Hey all. Adding another idea to the pile.
Have you considered adding a "hardcore" mode to the game? If you die, you die. Ones you reach maximum level you will go back to being a normal character and there will be a cool title or reward for levling to max lvl without dying.
Could be a pretty fun idea, especially for replayability.
It certainly can be made as a realm selection with some tweaked settings.
It would be fun to have such challenge, people will be quite careful when playing, not just "Leeroy jenkins-ing" everything š