I would rather that instead of upkeep and breakages being random that instead it looked at things such as your k/d ratio for that battle, how high you are up on the leaderboard, whether you have comitted any teamkills and so on and thereby worked out a proper % chance of item breakage with some bearing upon how well you are playing. This way good players will be able to use good equipment so long as they stay on top of their game and natural peasants will remain peasants.
Which is how it should be.