i think if you add a couple of semi rareish items to normal mob drop files (like osr to PB mobs or fox items to foxes, on a very very low rate)
it might help knowing that u have a chance of somthing semi decent while u grind like on euro, then again they may already be in there and just aint seen it yet.
At the moment tho it seems like they are trying to recreat the euro progression entirely, but i honestly dont remember drops being this bad on euro, i played from beta, quit for a year n came back n played till end, dont recall items being as rare as they seem to be here though, and yes you can say "server been up xx weeks" well yeh, but its not like people arnt killing most of the major bosses all day every day and getting lvl 15-20 items for thier troubles, or grinding the **** out of pastbichon and not seeing anything better than a coral ring, on many servers everyone knew you could go hunt normal mobs for certain nice items (FF of fire minos- curse/ba off ghouls in MM) at a very reduced rate.
I think you should have kept the drop files/rates from ace and just lowered the rate of certain things and added the chance of a semi decent item from norm mobs, just my 2p.