Farming yesterday to blow some time since this entire weekend was blown for FOW, we went to Augry Rock to farm some griffs. 3 times we cleared the area, and my buddy kept getting golden items.
"Ohoooo, score"
"Oh ya!! Cha-ching!"
"Double Prizes!!!"
"Golden max axe!!, Whooo Hooo!!"
As you can imagine I was like " Oh, ya hey nice, sweet, cool" Ughhh. sigh

The ratio was 5-0. He scored max unid gold items. I got wings and bleached carpaces. Believe me I did my fair share of the killing.
What is the deal? Is this random, or is it based on who's doing what kind of damage?

He is a W/Mo I am a R/Mo, both of us are capable of farming separate (which gets rid of this problem) but thats not the point to my question.
