I need boar skin and it's fairly costly at the Market. I actually like farming for my materials, so I struck out towards The Bramble Patch as an 18 Lancer. I fight about a dozen boars and get three skins (from one boar).

I would take this as bad luck, but...

I fought the same dozen as a 35 Monk and got zippo all around. The same goes for the frogs above Vesper Bay and the goats around Drybone. Even as a lancer, which is closer to equal level, these things hardly drop anything.

When I move my 35 Monk to fight even-level toads in Raingully, the same problem persists. Hardly any drops, if any. If I get six skins in twice as many mobs, I feel lucky.

Thing is, I remember getting killer drops when I was a 20-ish Pugilist fighting goats.

So, is this all just really, really bad luck, am I doing something wrong or is there something fishy?