15 Oct 2008 at 20:40 - 2
There is no difference between purple weapons and gold weapons or gold weapons and blue weapons for that matter. If they are inscribable, they can be modded to max stats.
The difference is, a purple weapon won't drop with max stats. It will just come with a middle range modifier that isn't perfect (ie, a blue weapon might be 11^50, a purple might be 14^50, while a gold might be 15^50).
However, purple weapons, like all other weapons, can be modded up to max stats.
Note, there is no "hidden" modification or power to a weapon in GW. What you see on the weapon discription about damage and moddifiers is what you get.
As for the price check, make a seperate thread in the PC forum for that.