I have to disagree with the economy bit. Yes of course the gap between rich and poor is ever-expanding (which happens a lot with games almost a decade old) and obviously it's an issue but that isn't to say the gold that the poor peeps have isn't affected by inflation. I see low lvls running around with vanities and such that cost at least 100-300k so the fact that they have like NO money is a little blown out of proportion.

Honestly if enchantments were gold-only (with no platinum cost at all) then I feel like that would open enchantments up to the collection of free-to-play players so gold can then circulate out of the economy.

This is an excellent thread so I do suggest you tack on a tl;dr at the end because the likelihood of Cinco reading all of this is slim.