I suggest that aventurine raise the durability on the armor and weapons you get from mobs. Lower the total durability with about 20% but keep the full durability, which would lead to more pvp at the mobspawns since a lot more would farm the mobs. Since it's hard to find good pvp these days this would increase the good pvp because you'd have to fight for the good spawns.
I think mob armor is ideal for PvP runs, at least if you get killed you are losing something with maybe 30% durability vs 100%. Therefore, get some plate from a mob, only has like 20/60 durability, if you lose it, just no big deal.
You can see that prices on resources and darkfall items are continually dropping, that is because the gold sink is too big, or the
darkfall gold drop is much too little.
People choose crafting and gathering over pve because of risk vs reward. There's very high risk, and extremely low reward. Takes 300 arrows to kill a mob that drops 200
darkfall gold. The only profitable means of farming is with r0-r20 staves and MM. with banded at best.
Hope this info helps!