pve drops
May I ask why you haven’t been spending your Karma on the heart vendors on appropriate gear when you find it?
The drops are just generated by random numbers, they aren’t going to give you specific gear. Salvage it and use the materials to either craft or sell and buy armour on the trade post.
You can use the trade post anywhere in game and there are trade post pick up points on almost every single map, so you don’t need to ‘sit in town’.
There’s plenty of fun things to discover from exploring, just yesterday I found an inquest base in Sparkfly Fen, I jumped over a barrier and found myself in a room full of floating platforms, I eventually discovered that there were veteran mobs guarding 3 locks which unlocked gates to get to a splendid chest which was also guarded by a Veteran golem. No achievement attached to this puzzle but I had fun anyway.
They aren’t adding mounts, the way point systems more than efficient.