nope, just bad luck. It really is RNG, it's not like there's a guaranteed minimum the game will always give per month.

I've gotten 8 Sacreds in 1 month and I've gotten 2, same for leggo tomes. I think I went 2 weeks without a tome once

This topic comes up all the time.  I've never once seen meaningful evidence to indicate a reward nerf from clan boss.  Anecdotally my rewards haven't changed.  To really get good consistent rewards you need to be farming UNM though.

I agree except that one time the russian cluster proved something was messed up and it quietly was fixed and burried.

Source for this?  Genuinely curios. 

Was a while back. But I recall this as well.  I originally doubted the claims but I  think it was actually true.  Not sure how they buried it so well tbh.

Must have done a good job.  I'm usually pretty plugged in and don't recall hearing anything about it.

There were multipage threads here and on reddit, I'm sure Quinn remembers.  It was years ago, I think

Yeah, but tbh, they didn't "prove" anything - just demonstrated a very high degree of confidence based on gathering a large amount of data.

science

I remember this as well.  Plarium did their own investigation after being confronted with the data and realized that drop rates were wrong, and it was corrected.

I do not know if there was ever any "proof" that it was an intentional secret nerf or if it was indeed an accident.

😂

Whats the line...Never assume malice when incompetence will suffice.  Something to that effect.

Giving Plarium the benefit of the doubt has certainly been my stance on the game for most of my time playing it....saying stuff to clanmates like: 

(1) They'd never do that on purpose, it must be an accident...

(2) They can't possibly be that disconnected from the game, it must be a bug...

After a while, those kinds of excuses start to fall flat, and you realize that (1) Yes, they really are that disconnected from the game, and (2) they really did do ________ and ________ on purpose....