I personally always thought Normal should be guaranteed 1 drop, D 2 drops, VD 3 drops. Getting what you're after on normal difficulty is a pain in the butt. Not even really sure what the point of VE-E is. Go solo and get a free paper I guess?

Taking the ex tag off bc drops is kind of a double edged sword, cause while you could buy what you wanted, at the same time during bc's everyone would just wanna be lotting the rarer/good items that would sell for more.