Items vs blueprints dropping

I made a character that I’ll want to use Beronath, Reforged with. She’s currently level 61 so soon I’ll be in range for the items to drop (she’s my highest level char).

I noticed Beronath, Reforged has a blueprint. Can only the blueprint be dropped, or can the item be dropped as well?

And as a side (newbie) question, is there a good way of farming for the drop?

Also, is there a way to farm for Shard of Beronath blueprint? Or is just running the game good enough a way to farm it?

And is crucible worth buying to farm items?

Crucible is not terribly interesting and I know that personally I hit some weird lag spikes (can’t even use one of my builds in there as FPS drops to about 10 frames) but sadly it is the best way to farm currently. Even aspirant level has dropped 90% of the blueprints I’ve gotten compared to the campaign.

Just running the game is something of a crap shoot with the way loot seems to drop. I could set up a shop with how many of the same mythical legendaries I’ve had drop but getting the ones I really want has been frustrating. I even tried the secret smith in the AoM part of the campaign and for some reason out of twelve rolls using rare materials I ended up with six shields trying to role ranged and melee weapons. Shields are pretty much useless to me so I feel like I squandered those resources. 1200+ hours in this game and I still haven’t gotten complete sets of pre AoM gear. I can only imagine how many more hundreds of hours I would need to invest to get even one of the mythical sets I want completed and it is pretty hard to tackle certain end game enemies without the right gear.