RDM being on the new gear is 100% accidental. They are using the gear templates from 2003/2004, back when RDM was put on a lot of light leather / scale gear. As long as they keep redoing that then RDM will get decent gear, the moment they go back to the "bad ass heavy gear, mediocre light gear, shitty every-mage gear" concept they've been using is when RDM gets shafted again.