Yea, it seems to me that previous dev's took the.. Slap another layer of crap on top of this layer of crap, approach. Little tweaks here and there are really all that's needed in my eyes, but hey, I'm not a dev. :P
Fair enough.
Some should be store-buyable, but others possibly rather common drops in level-appropriate instances or just random from mobs in SL, maybe rollable in RK even. That would encourage either teaming, or soloing to learn your tools and such while not being an easy give-away.