Trade Item Future?

Quick question; are/when are armor creation going to be added? Frankly, armor is much more useful to me than guns, which are hard to market and rarely worth much to sell, unless you spend a lot of time auctioning. Which I don't.

Secondly, I REALLY think that it would be very cool for something like "Hand crafted by [charactername]" to the description of hand build items...

Thirdly, are rings ever useful as something other than somewhere to dump the random jewels etc into to raise their market value?