Shattered Kingdoms

This is a positive thing. If you play competitive PK, and you die, you feel the burden of re-equipping. That's sensible; competitive PK is meaningless without a penalty. If you don't play competitive PK, and you die, re-equipping is easy. That's sensible too; you're not heavily inconvenienced OOCly for playing a mere foot-soldier.

The only real complaints I have about enchanting are that it rewards bad behavior (silently sitting somewhere safe) and that there's so little tactics in this timesink. Neither of these is easy to fix. A whole reform of the magic system would probably be the better value.

Although I agree with a lot of your aim, Edoras (grinding is lame, and I don't buy that it makes anything more meaningful) - Forsooth does make the point that many of enchanting's other, larger flaws are more evident of a need to revamp the entire system, rather than apply patchwork solutions.

At this point, it's kind of like CRS. There is no patch that will redeem it, in my eyes; it just needs a complete reworking.