Miscellaneous: Brute hides in Frontier mountains

[Jimjam]

Me and my buddy have been killing 'a gorging brute' and 'a ravenous brute's in Frontier Mountains today in the hope of collecting Brute Hides and High Quality Brute Hides for his cultural tailoring.

I reckon we killed 30+ brutes, if not far more, and we didn't have any of either drop (we were there for two hours killing almost exclusively brutes).

Magelo lists the drop rates as 10 and 5 per cent for the regular/HQ hides. Assuming the drop rates haven't been changed since classic times it seems me and my friend were either rather unlucky or these mobs are missing these items from their loot table.

http://eq.magelo.com/item/30356

http://eq.magelo.com/item/30358

The only other explanation I can think of is perhaps the drops here are rarer than live; is there any reason for this?