Blade-Percing Bones...

i usually just wait and buy stuff

here is the biggest help: ADVICE -
learn to farm. in the past hour; i made 1 million gold from farming and selling on MP. there is tons of stuff to farm and it don't cost you more than 0-1 crimson per hour (if you are smart). once you make some cash, buy your mats... much easier than wasting all your tokes for a rare random drop.

while i will not give away, my personal farming spot (though i am sure many use it already) due to flooding the market and making the items worthless, i will give you one hint:
changemap_to_current_random_sector
if you can not figure it out from there (and by reading lots of posts by others), i don't know what else to tell you.

i doubt there are many benevolent gifting angels who just hand out whatever anyone wants to bum or panhandle. everyone on here has to do his/her own collecting of items and the only reason it may be easier for some is because they worked hard on finding a nice little niche to work. but again, it is all work.