Nice list! Someone's been paying attention to the PvP forums.
Here are a few things I'd like to see, personally.
- Randomize NPC drone and node spawn times and make the message about their spawning much more obvious. For example, have drones spawn randomly between every 2-5 minutes after the last drone of the last spawn was killed or the start of the match. This would stop middle from being "just another place to camp" and make it so all 3 GCs rush middle at the same time when they notice the spawn message, resulting in some spur-of-the-moment epic 3-way skirmishes. As for the message, I sometimes don't notice it in my chat box. I'd like to see the messages flash in big letters across an area of my screen, making it impossible to miss. Maybe make it an option, to keep the players who like the more subtle messages happy.
- Have the NPC spawn notice explicitly state whether it was the drones or node which spawned in middle. As far as I've noticed, it doesn't specify. This should be a common sense feature.
- Display all disabled stats in Frontlines in red on the character stat windows, with a note in their mouseover tooltips explaining that they are disabled. It's only recently been proven to me that Defense/Magic Defense do literally nothing while in Frontlines. I had thought that, with Morale disabled, the Defenses would work normally. However, they do not. Despite the fact that they do not, nothing at all queues you into the fact that those two stats are worthless in Frontlines. The lack of in-game UI elements explaining disabled stats in PvP is absolutely unacceptable.
- Have all abilities that effect the Defense stats do something of similar nature in Frontlines/Wolves' Den. For example, Protect should lower damage taken by something like 2%, 3% if used by a WHM with the improvement passive trait. A similar effect could be added to Foresight, having it lower Physical damage taken by 5%, or something like that - it's not big, but it's more than the nothing it does now.