Section ID woes, robots finding magic items.. grr! Options

[unitself]

Grr! This is a bit of a rant, but it PSO specific so I wanted to put it in here.
Anyways...
My main character, scu, is a HUcast with a Greenhill ID. I can't tell you how many @#$%ing rifles I find. I have found at least 10 or more WALS' and VISK's. It drives me nuts! Who up there in SegaLand thought it would be fun to torture hunter robots with rifles and wands? Scu has become a roving metal detector for my other characters now. I just save it all and transfer it over. Unfortunately, all the stuff I find is for the higher ups and my two other characters are in the low 20's. GRR!!!!
And do the RED variety of weapons even exist anymore? On the DC, I found a red handgun in VHard once. It made ULT soooo much easier!
All in all, I am getting tired of my mechguns. But, I have to use them cause they're the only thing that hits on a consistant basis. I want! I want! I WANT!!!

[Layrinn]

I feel your pain, scu. Though for Rinn it's Gae Bolgs, not rifles. I suppose at least that's a useful weapon for a hunter. >.> Somewhere out there, I'm sure there's a Ranger with a Hunter-oriented ID cursing the system just like you. ^.~ I would imagine that SonicTeam had a wonderful vision of all the various section IDs existing happily together in a world of free trade. Of course, dupers is as dupers does... I guess it wasn't meant to be.

But look on the bright side! You have lots of friends, and they all have IDs different from yours. =3

As for the Red weapons... yes, of course they're still around. They're still pretty powerful, but no where near like they were in v.2. They're a weeee bit harder to find this time around, too. If you want to have a look at what your ID (and others') can find, check out this link. I believe this is one HC82 posted a while back. Even though the guy has never updated it, it's still one of the best rare drop listings out there, IMO.

http://www.srwweb.net/pso.htm