Trading Complaints and item drop complaints

This game has 2 major flaws that new players should be aware of.

The first is Item drops. They have upped it, and I'm not saying the quality and quantity is bad, but rather the type. As a sorcerer I got a good staff at around level 12 from the NPC Store. not one has beat it since. how, in 30 levels, have I found no better staffs? Seriously my Gelid staff with +2 skills is still level 5 frost shards. - this also makes bosses extremely hard if you are just unlucky.

Second is trading with other players. The only way to do this is to spend in real world currency to trade your items in the store. Granted you can use the trade chat, but it's off by default. And people don't really engage with it.

The forums and storage for the forum trade should be free. What should cost me 5 bucks is an auction house. Then i can list stuff, and people buy it whenever they want. and it sells.

Things could sell and trade for gold, including orbs, so if exalts are the thing, lets sell exalts for 100k gold or something, and armor can go for a million or 20 million gold etc...
and at low levels we can trade eachother for 20k 30k etc...

Something of note, I don't have time to trade everyone all the time, I am still struggling to get dungeons done. Why would I quit mid dungeon to meet someone and trade them a unique I found.

TL:DR;
1. Change the loot drop system so a character has better chance to get gear they need, even if it isn't necessarily great gear, my sorcerer should see more int and spell abilities drop
2. Improve the trading system. Allow an in game automated way if possible.