Dudeleader
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New players will have the opportunity to craft items that are useable by others. The way the game was intended. They will have the chance to learn the regions the way it was meant for them to learn them - through exploration and teaming with others of their own level and a lot of hard work. They will experience the true difficulties of going from one capitol to another without the assistance of "trek masters" who will most probably have left the game. The new players will be given a chance to become significant instead of constantly in the shadows of the old-timers.
What about those old-timers? What is left for them? Well they will still have all the knowledge of the game. The knowledge and skills that were learned by having previously mastered the game. And that is a huge advantage over a truely new player. I've often said that I think the game should have an 'aging' component so that characters don't become 'all powerful'. I don't believe that the game was intended to have players build a character that was a master of all things.
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The "old players" that'll keep around, don't just have an "advantage" in knowledge. This advantage will grant them the possibility to achieve old standards in a much faster way as the new players ever could.
They'll have the basic levels back to current status that fast, you won't be able to imagine right now, this fact is increased by the announced xp-boost for transferred characters.
No "trek masters" you say? Those veterans who'll stay are able to pass all the roots unharmed even with a silan-type character by sneaking past all the mobs. They know by heart all the supreme mat-spots.
They know what material they need to make proper PvP-equipment.
They'll get all the neutral teleporter-tickets within one evening.
This is not just an advantage. The discrepancy between veteran and new players will quite fast, faster as you might want to realize now, be the same as it is right now.
The only thing the skill-tree wipe achieves, is to have lots of players leaving the game. Making eventually room for some new players, but lets be honest, those won't replace those people right now paying for 3 up to 5 accounts.
And those new players, that'll have to learn the game first, will then be confronted yet again with a mass of veteran players that are able to overcome them in any imaginable way of gameplay.