Personally speaking i would be happy if they implemented them just for the fact normal and hard mode drop ninja tool essences (the same as UT) as secondary rewards (where now are only natures, coins and dangos) and tools with the top tier additional stats (red gourd stats tier from old 2.0 BF hard mode) as primary rewards.

I want to reforge my tools too.

If not with +4 elemental resistances at least with +100/+130 damage reduction and with +80/+110 defense/resistance secondary stats.

@JustSaying: the chance to drop tools instead of moon scrolls is the same in normal and hard mode as it is in easy mode and their stats are randomly rolled between purple and gold tier of stats (is not like the old bf hard mode that dropped 1 tool per try with 6 granted gold secondary stats).

Getting one single +4 resistance may take 1 month of tries.

It doesn't seem so unacceptable, considering if you want to overstack them you need, in the best case 25/30 of them (considering, even if you are full of old +4s you actually need to replace for sure Necklace, Sword, Mask, Fan, Ring (if i don't mistake red ring is the tool you get in kage ti hard mode) and, for the best setup, also Kunai and Blade (because the basic stats of the tools in those two slots were modified with 4.0 to make Shikiseiken and Tailed beast Shuriken the best tools, while, in 2.0 and 1.0 were Sword of Totsuka and Paper Shuriken, so all the old players that overstacked +4 resistances in those tools did it on them and not on the current best tools).