drop rates were fine. You could get archeum from lockboxes fishing or DEing gear in dungeons. Then they removed lockboxes and made it so you can only DE would drops and not dungeon drops for archeum (the main component for crafting literally all items in a game that revolves around crafting)...Basically, The game was fine, and they broke it by putting out a patch from korea that was meant to combat botters (IN KOREA). The only way to get archeum is to de it in world , which means hoping for world drops which you are lucky to get once a day farming all day, buy it, which means paying more for crafting mats than the gear you may or may not get trying to craft, or grow it on trees, and the trees arent worth the land because they dont yield enough. TLDR; bad patch intended for NON-NA ruined game in alpha. Read their forums for more info. Tons of threads about this issue and nothing changed because the game is out of trion's hands. Save your time - trust me, i pissed away $150 on a game that is nowhere near complete.