Is Empress Cygnus semi-fixed?

I'll try and keep this to minimum detail and get to the point.
Read the bold for the questions.

A couple people and I have been researching Cygnus for a while now.

We came to understand that it was glitched, but apparently the last mini patch we had fixed it's guard summoning glitch.

Yesterday, and 2 hours ago, a group of us attempted to take down the guards for drops. Everything went fine, Mikhail was summoned from the start and we proceeded to kill it. After about 3 minutes in it died, but to our surprise dropped nothing.

3/6 of us decided that it was just a low drop rate, but I figured it was something else. Sadly after that run, shinsoo was spawned so we had to leave.

Question #1: Does shinsoo reheal after it hides if you do not kill it within the minute? Will empress continue to spawn instructors after shinsoo is spawned out of order?

On our second run, today, we proceeded to do the same thing (Except Oz was brought out first). This time I had 2x drop and was ready, but to my disappointment, yet again, nothing dropped.

Question #2: Do the guards drop equipment yet?
I've seen a few screen shots, but I can't really base it off 1 group.

Question #3: Do you need X amount of people in the map?
We ran with 4 today and slowed down. Oz died at 49:55 with no drops at all.

This was all done in a "NEW" server.

I realize the following question, and previous, may sound ignorant but I'm tired of wasting time.

Question #4: Does anyone have a SS of the drops, either on the floor or in general, in gMS (Excluding that SW one that showed 5, I believe in Scania).


Question #5: Is there a sort of timer check?
Probably isn't seeing as were a new server running with 4-6 people.. had to ask!

Question #6: Is this normal? Are the drop rates for even the recipes the guards drop this low?
I can understand the eqs... but wow.

Thanks for any information.