In answer to your original question OP:
Here are the reasons.
1. Everyone pro already knows how to get their own stuff and that they don't need it until they can camp it themselves
2. The majority of stuff being sold in EC is for twinks or coming off of newblet twink brats of some parents children who have no frakkin clue about what it actually takes to get this shit (which is not much in reality)
My suggestion, just ignore it, stuff that matters you can get at cost, like banded armor and bronze you can usually find on vendors in the appropriate areas were it drops/main cities etc... other items, if you see a deal be happy.
Hell for less then 200pp at lvl 20, I had banded, bone armplates, legplates, a decent 2hs and more, the real lack of gear for tanks anways is in the late 20's and 30's because its really only your solro gear or a really good weapon your looking for, the yaks in guk are perma camped so that sucks there... but hey you can easily enough farm the money needed for a yak or get a couple caster items to trade by the time you "need" one... in your 40's
To all the elitist asshats out there bitching about people without the most uberest gear, go get a life, not everyone has parents to handmedown shit too out of the guildbank, and a group can kill Fire Giants in solb with a naked tank with 2 gnoll whips if they so desired, the game is not that hard.
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