RNG is just bad. In the beta I practically got lucky on rolls on bags, thus I had my purpz quickly. Same time a guildmate of mine opened way more bags than I did at the time and got only got an earpiece out of it.
Another annoying thing is getting duplicate tokens for the same piece of armor that you already own, when it's likely the one you have pretty much the one you want to stick with. I ended up throwing purple gear on my companion. Humorous.