To be honest, I don't buy any of this garbage about keeping these types of items rare considering many of the same people were likely involved in the Salvage duping controversy some years ago. There's no logical reason now for Black Belt items to be kept so rare other than to placate so-called "hardcore" clowns who are so insecure about their "trophies" not having any meaning. It's way past time for S-E's developers to stop catering to these people's egos--not to mention their own--and give Monks a fair shot at completing this old quest.