This will answer the questions about the new NM system.
http://www.bluegartrls.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=34658&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
I read teh google hits. This is all that is known, but it looks like a tiered system (again) with everything being a popped NM. When you pop a first tier NM, there is a 100% drop which you trade back to the main NPC for all of this. When you trade it, you get a key item that lets you buy a pop item for a second tier, etc.
I’m going to stay cautiously optimistic about these being an ‘obtainable’ series of gear items. Unlike, oh, say limbo, where Omega has decided to drop 1 Body in the past year….