First, you won't have to worry about someone making the same character five times to get a build correct because no character aside from LK will be able to reach 99/70 on its own (certainly not outside of a party).
Secondly, on this server it's already accepted that if you are making anything that isn't a knight. You better be making a knight to leech it with. Leveling anything that isn't a knight is a complete waste of time.
Third, if there is no way to stat reset at least once we are just going to end up back at square 1. Better be making a knight with any character you make! For instance I would rather have a scholar be able to at least be able to kill for exp with some type of bolter build and then be able to switch to a WoE build (that will most likely make it useless in PvM) than have to make a lord knight to leech my scholar with while it sits in the corner of jup.
Fourth, my suggestion (not saying its the answer to all problems but use it as a frame of reference) Maybe do something like three resets per account so even if a character is deleted you already used up your reset, also making it available in the future would also help other players who want to join instead of making it seem like it was a first come first serve type of thing where anyone who joins afterwards would be reverted back to LK leech.
It's fine if you want the server to stay the way it is, if you enjoy making knight after knight to leech your other classes because you can't afford to solo level it because you can't even come close to begin to attempt to level a support class with proper PvP stats. Good luck doing anything with a FS scholar or paladin that will have to rely on the hopes of being able to join a party to level right? Yeah just join a party and you can FS to max duh cmon right? Well who's gonna want to make a bard, wizard, priest when those are the classes sitting the corner getting leeched by knight?
Idk I just can't accept the idea that there won't be a solution to the mandatory knight per anything else you might want to play.
My solution (not claiming it's the best one) Is to give a limited amount of stat resets per account, keep the crazy high exp so it gives people something to do. But don't leave things the way they are, dont make me have to make an account of all knights just to be able to only experience one half of a character, if you lk leech a support class for it's end game viability in WoE you will most likely never even attempt to have fun to make a PvM version, maybe you will. but have fun getting max next year. rant done. Cya