I think it is still a fairly uncommon drop. Same reason wizard epic is up there. Unclassic low drop rate on VS staff even though more guilds get a chance at him now. But maybe there is another reason I am missing.

It's still a very rare drop from what I've seen. We haven't seen one in months.

And in that same time frame, how many SK swords, wizard staves, or trak guts have you acquired? How many before? These are all things they have ranked as easier than mage.

15ish Inny kills, 2 staves. Pretty rare.
In similar numbers of CT kills... 5-6 Soul Leeches (2 dropped recently from same one). Maybe 4~ Trakanon guts and 5 Gnarled Staves?

And Rampage is monopolizing just fine. You saw half of TMO jump ship to Red to join Zeelot right? Rampage is getting a solid 80-90% of the mobs in Class C/FFA if their guild recruitment posts are accurate.

Mage staff and SK sword seem the most rare. We've seen a pretty good amount of wiz staffs and Trak guts.

But what about Slime Bloods. We still haven't seen a single one drop...

About 80-85ish of the C/FFA I'd say. Asgard is still really good at Inny and some of the FFA targets are a CoH crapshoot.

We got one like two weeks ago. Still uber rare. Up there with Mage and SK drops.

It's actually a little bit harder than that: you can't turn in CoM pages/books until you've gotten to a certain faction level, so you have to either:

A) get a cleric to rez you or get a druid to port you while you repeat the very first step (a lot), or
B) complete some other early step multiple times (eg. kill the guys in Rathe a bunch), or
C) complete the first half of the epic properly (which mostly just involves a lot of running around and killing easy stuff)

Regardless of which of the above you choose though, you really have to do the Black Dire step; while it's not necessary, the insta-click SoW booties are so awesome they should be considered part of the epic IMHO.

So what you're saying is... It's harder than the Rogue epic, but easier than everybody else. Right? Lol.