I've had similar roadblocks on upgrading certain pieces of gear.
It would be nice if the game implemented some sort of system where you could exchange 2 or 3 pieces of one type of gear for another. That way players wouldn't feel so cheated of their hard work.
Like turn in 3 Capes of Anger upgraders into 1 Cape of Vitality upgrader, that way if you get way too much of one upgrader you can turn it into something you want.
Oh yes ,there SHOULD be some kind of posibility to exchange items .And indeed it feels like i've been cheated by a stupid system for few weeks ,tho i'm kind of stubborn person -i want my VITALITY cape ,and i want it to drop ...i went yday astral,last 2 keys and guess what..i got another 2 upgraders for it ,blah. Guess i'll just leave this item at last and start upgrade something else mean time .
Thanks all for your answers ,and maybe they will fix the drop rate of items ,because if you really work for something,dis should not happen that much that makes you to go switch items because they simply not drop ..this cape i haven't had problems with it untill it became leggy one ...then the nightmare begun . I know every MMOROG has its parts of ''farming '' ,its part of game ,but normal usuall equip should really not be such a pain to obtain.I get even more easely the relics from Eclipse nowaydays then dis cape (LoL) .Hope some one will even read this and fix it .