Though I understand it's not a concern to most people--the roleplaying experience right now is suffering greatly from a few very small problems that with small tweaks could instantly improve the entire roleplay experience. The greatest of which is alts.

To roleplay a different character, one would have to either fully level the alt and beat the story or buy a story skip and level boost, which for most roleplayers isn't exactly feasible. You are either doomed to roleplay the same character or only in ARR areas on a low level character with no glams.

"Well just roleplay one character" Maybe, this could work, but this is stiffling in another way. There is no way to now create "NPCs" or story characters for roleplay event-runners.

I can think of a number of solutions, some I understand are more or less realistic and difficult to implement, such as:

A trial system in which we can make level 80/90 characters with that have a limited time duration or inability to level up which can be used to experiment with classes and areas etc...

Having a way to have account-wide glamour dresser or some such system. These two combined would solve the entire problem

Alternatively...

Could make story skips and level boosts free for those that have already beaten those parts.

Additionally I am interested in how others have approached roleplay and if they've had any success attempting to create npc based roleplay events somehow.