I had no trouble getting gear.... but then again I am a mmo vet having played the mass majority of them. Its a hard equation of "time wasted vs time being productive" sounds simple but is not. How much time did you really spend doing your preferred grind? Did you focus on that grind/objective? Did you just run threw sporadically killing here and there? or Did you terminator it killing as many things as fast as possible while still focusing on your main objective? All these points play factors in the larger equation....