Very intriguing... While many good points were made to support your thesis, I still must decline because... 1) If equipment was easy to get and everyone had it, what's the point? 2) idk any more reasons, one is enough
Just because it took you 50 tries doesn't mean that it's an extraordinarily low chance of getting a drop. Think about it like this: You have a deck of cards You take out a card and look at it You put it back and shuffle the deck Repeat until you find an ace For some people, the first card drawn may be an ace. It's also possible that it takes you 50 tries to get one. Games of chance often feel unfair just because some people are unlucky, but over the entire population of kaw, equipment drops are pretty fair and most are not, on average, extremely difficult to obtain.
I think it should be a 50% better chance to get nobs and crystals through quests, so its a fair chance and not to easy.
Think about this I on my first account I did reck over 500 times and hooves never dropped I did one nml and got hooves