Players dont need to do all 3 activites to need more than 1 set. I believe I listed plenty of examples on both combat and life skill side to cover 3+ sets at least. I guess you could argue it wont clutter as much for ppl that do different activities on different characters though.

I agree that even the rare lightstones are gonna sit on marketplace eventually but it remains to be seen how long that takes. Garmoth's heart is in a similar situation that its never destroyed but its still sitting at max price most of the time.

I don´t mind some of the lightstones being rare, I can live with that. But the drop rate for artifacts are just a bad joke. One week of casual grinding, so about 10-15 hours and doing about 50 Bheg scrolls and a few world bosses resulted in exactly 1 artifact drop....and of course the wrong one.

PA should really change it, this is really ridiculous. Either they should allow them to register at the market or increase the drop rate a lot.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1hUx3EZTi14sE9L1nbS-u3KDLTqd1_2LroUdP565Qsbs/edit#g=0

those are all the wrong one from manhsaums and stars end and i still dont have 2x magic accuracy artes. i did complete 2x magic ap ones.... look how many pity pieces for potion it took me :D

RNG isn't much fun isn't it? It's a lot more rewarding to have a progression system instead. I think if you add the RNG mechanic of randomly being able to obtain your end-goal during a grind if it involves grinding to exist... But besides that I think they need to really try and take the progression route. I think people would be more motivated to .... A random idea would be to have a vessel that you have to fill it with souls and when it's full you can exchange it for an item. Then you use simple alchemy and process that with something else which you should have obtained during your grind. If you combine X with Y then you get Z. If you combine X with W then you get A. They do it a lot for events and it's a lot more encouraging than wondering if something will ever drop from grinding random mobs. Or at least allow players to exchange the relic through a process that can take maybe an hour or two at most.

My point is... People love to build up their character but if there's too long of a period where nothing is improving, then it becomes demotivating. Even in end-game, whatever you're doing should somehow feel rewarding but unfortunately 90% of it is a big gamble on whether or not you will be rewarded or get penalized for trying.

I haven't really gotten any artifacts as of yet, I haven't tried but. Doing Whales. out of 8 whales from 1 train I got 1 artifact there. Then out of 6 hours grinding I got 2 more. But ofcourse this is with the droprate event going so +50% droprate there. If this helps with any statistics. But during the whale train specifically almost 80% of the participants got the lifeskill exp artifact somewhere within the 8 whales.

2artefact magic ap for my DK,i've loot 1 in 2hours grind,after 30hours for 2 DR magic,and 10h for the last Magic AP (at sherekhan)

Well... 

Got 3 in an hour at StarEnds, then 1 on the other hour, then 2 on another hour.... What's the problem with artificats ?
Now i'm looking for the one which gives us 10% BSR. And for that one, I'm at 5 hours at Kratuga and still nothing. I guess, the best the artifact is, the low the drop chance is. 
I find it's pretty normal... Otherwise, what would be the point to get what we want just by a slap ?! 

Stop beeing so rude with the %... BDO is working like that. RNG is the center of the games.. But still, most of you are still surprise by the new contents.... 

Its not supprised, its the chance, sure rng is rng, but it would be nice to know if its treasure item chances or griffon helm level chance or Yellow acc chance. If we had % chance people would be able to optimize their time to focus on a specific relic first.

Edit: It would be nice to know if each artifact has a different chance for different stats as no one knows this info we are all just guessing at this point

Got 1 Magic Accuracy and 1 Melee Accuracy at Star's End in about 10-15 hours.  In that amount of time, I've gotten 11 Distortion Earrings.  I'd prefer 2x Magic Accuracy, but this will do for now as my main interest is PvP and grinding for money (Elvia) and I play Awakening.

Artifacts aren't too bad, IMO.  Artifacts should be hard to get.  Makes having the ones you want that much more satisfying, once you do get them.  But that's just IMO.  Everyone sees it differently.