The effects of Maker on the economy

with the vast majority of magicians being lukless, I have my doubts mage shoes will be a good market

The vast majority of REMADE magicians are LUKless. If someone's first char was a mage, chances are they're Low LUK or Reg LUK. Very rarely do you see someone that just started Maplestory as a mage going LUKless right off the bat, and by the time they find the forums that teach them how to work their chars, they're already too far into their LUK build (and this is based on a few months experience helping out on SW's mage forum). Most likely, the shoe market will be a relatively lucrative venture, since the magician economy is lucrative in general. An 8 to 9 stat shoe is 5 extra stats, which pushes much more parity between LUK and LUKless, albeit in a minor way.