Most of the development of the game has stopped if you haven't notice. There is almost nothing tied to the lore of the game anymore. The water dragon I believe was last thing they added that had to do with lore. Things like catacombs and necros were closed which was a huge lore thing, nevermind when they towns were destroyed by the Goddess of Destruction then poof they are all fixed one day no explanation. The seeds were big and fun change, but they were closed for the most part. Raids are not even done anymore except by the top players. Field raid bosses are too high level and require too many people for even the high level people to do because of their barriers. I don't care how much patk you have but 1050 hits in 15 seconds who thought that was a good idea? I am starting to feel like I am playing an old Nintendo game when you beat it starts back at level 1 just a harder version nothing changes just levels are more difficult. I went to go visit the Ant Queen but the ant nest still on the map has disappeared.... Beleth side of hellbound is gone no way to enter. I mean like whats the deal with this stuff. Towns like Dion, Gludin, Gludio (after starting quests) all the starting villages including Talking Island, most of Giran area, all wastelands of nothing.
There are lots of dragon weapons biut they are horded by the top clans because they are considered game breaking weapons and you have to be lucky or extremely loyal to get one. These weapons sell for $$$$ on the black market so its also income but they don't want these weapons to go to their enemies either so sit in warehouses they do. I know of people on my server that have multiple +15 or higher limited bows sitting in their warehouses to control the market themselves.
The crafting system right now is broken and useless because of Ether, common mats you can farm and buy but you need ether thats not sellable or tradeable to craft. The people who have lot of ether are usually their mains that dont have high luck like their crafters or alts because you need STR Dex and Cha to level not luck.