Having less mages on the server will just make them more special.Foot warrior should be bread and butter and being magician would not be common and what is wrong with that.
I would love to see more farming options in MO2.Having cows could be based on mounts system but without possibility to ride on them but milking instead.
You could bread and keep them in stables to keep the system simple.
With just one character per account the possibility of recreating your avatar ones or twice for free without loosing stats and items would let players to perfect their builds avoiding going for cookie cut all the time.