Its not gambling, its extra opportunity, you are running the quest once to get loot, you are using astral shards to get extra chances at the loot pull at the end of a quest.

Gambling would be a slot machine at the entrance of the quest/rare cave that said no need to run the content just put your astral shards in this slot machine outside the quest and pull pull pull, spend money for loot of course you dont get a first pull for free you must gamble right away.

Just because SSG is making profit of people that are willing to spend money to shorten the time consumed for the hunt for gear after a quest/rare does not construe gambling, its a pay to advance mechanic and the same niche group have been doing it all along, its a great place to increase profit margins and keep the lights on, my thanks to the niche group.

We have a new aspiring champion to the title of most retarded on the mobo.

Positive Thinking is the latest dumbfuck who decided to sink even lower the already tragicomically IQ on the mobo. Not going to embellish further his exploit, here's the link with a quote

https://forums.ddo.com/index.php?threads/myth-drannor-drop-rates.13687/page-23


Luckily enough Epicsoul's comment brought back some semblance of intelligence in that cesspool of stupidity.