Suggestions to fill in the gap and fix the economy (which will be forgotten... <_<)

[Luigi1]

That's right. You'll all neglect my opinion after a few weeks. But, anyway...

Anyway (deja vu just for you (I'm referring to my two consecutive uses of "anyway")), I'll start with the armor and weapons first. Look at the current craftable armor and weapons (and the armor/weapons obtained in the west haunted house). Compared to alchemy and event armor/weapons, craftable/"free" armor/weapons is very pathetic.
You should be able to "work your way up" with armor. Be able to get basic armor when you start, be able to kill weak monsters, then level up to where you can kill some slightly stronger monsters which drop parts that can be used for crafting, which can be used to make slightly better armor, rinse, repeat, until you reach a certain point. But, that might make things a little too fast. Perhaps adding new sections to the mines that you can break open when you are a certain level and mine different minerals used for some of the later-on craftable armor. Alchemy armor would pretty much just be an alternative slightly-higher-than-average level armor because alchemy recipes can't be obtained by everyone.
... That paragraph got very long and boring, and the others will probably end up being the same.

Now, there's the overpowered and/or ridiculously rare event items. The main problem is that they just get more limited in supply every year, which causes their value to inflate. Perhaps after X amount of time since their release, they get re-released in some form? (Simply holding events for them again, making some sort of quest to get them that can be done X times a year (not for each person, for everyone... if that makes sense), or putting them in the event coin workshop.)

... Damn it, I ran out of things to say. And it's 3:41 AM.

Scammers and USD'ers, you are now free to disagree with me because you don't want to lose the "power" you hold.