Nodewar CAPS are very bad designed.
Classes that rely on DR selfbuffs or AP selfbuffs and so are screwed. Some kits are useless in capped content because of their low dmg traded off for a tankiness that doesn't exist in capped content.
Solution: Remove caps and make people who join nodewars use a pre-set gear like arena of solare, with this upgrade every class will have their identity and nodewars would be way more balanced
Also, new area boss' rush capped stuff is bad designed as well, I assume people can run weird accessory sets and weird consumables to improve their scores since gear doesn't really matter. Make people run a pre-set gear there too like arena of solare if you really really want it to be capped and accessible to newbies as well.
While caps are bad, this is not the reason why they are bad, in fact such buffs should be deleted from the game in the first place since they break the gear scaling.