I'm not a boss fighter either. I'm close to 40 kills and no sticks yet. Hopefully soon. Starting to get sick of it. The drops from Hermod are trash too. I mostly get junk seeds.
I got the drums sticks after 93 kills,so it seems totally random.
I have almost 300 kills on the boss now and still no Pet and yet some get the
pet after 100-150 kills so all drops seems random.
I have 37 plate drops though so they seem to be very easy to get.
i got it after 42 kills. got 5 plates in that time as well. by the end i was in the 70's so the kills were getting faster and i wasnt needing to use food (mostly caz i knew to dodge hes backhand swing attack, lol)
Logic, who needs it...