I still haven’t looked at other players items in the Arena for the purpose of seeing if they cheated or not. the few times I look is to get ideas or see what they did to do so good in our fight, no matter who won. I just got my PVP Wizard with all Epic Affixes back into Eternal League last week. it was a lot of work, and I am sure I beat up a lot of legit and cheater players to do it. With All Epic Affixes!!! 
since my mind still likes to do crafting based on the Campaign part of DQ, it makes it kind of hard to change my thinking to craft for PVP, since the builds for both are so different. I kind of like the idea of using Epic Affixes to see how far I can go in Eternal League, because it helps me see how useful the useless affixes are, and how useless the useful affixes are.
there is a saying that goes: if you can’t beat them (hackers), join them (hackers). but for DQ I think it should be: if you don’t want to join them (hackers), beat them (hackers).
there are a lot of posts that can help a player get up into Eternal League with Legit Builds, and @Mr_Scooty gave us a look at how to make the foundation of powerful PVP Builds with Scooty Gift: Immortal Build Reveal. with posts like this, there is no reason to cheat anymore unless a player is incredibly lazy or want a Dev to send them to the Cheaters Battle Arena so they can compete against other cheaters and have the Eternal League Division One First Place Modified Gears. I know this might sound kind of bad, but how about Cheaters who get first place in Cheater league get a Green Gear 
with a Purple M in the center of the Gear, or a big Green M with crossed Screw Driver and Wrench, for their back, instead of the Eternal Back Legit Players get in the Battle Arena. I know it sounds like rewarding them, but if they wear it in the Legit Arena by somehow getting back in, it would give Legit Players a big clue as to whether you want to fight with them or not.
here is a look at Mr. Scooty’s Gift:
wow, just found this: