Hacked Items

so are you saying that some person with 10 ilbis in their shop with random letters/numbers as their ign could have just got lucky at wolf spiders too?

The number of 45-50 luk/int saunas, etc. is definitely suspicious; I personally know of one perfect duped item still in circulation, which basically everyone agrees is duped. There is no denying that perfect items started appearing frequently when the white scroll dupers came around. Before that point I had only heard of a perfect Claymore on another version of Maple Story, I had never seen one. After that, you might come across a perfect or nearly perfect item every few weeks or so.

As far as legit perfect items, at least with the 1h swords it's possible at this point. GM scrolls are out, if you merchant and have the right contacts it IS possible to spend several billion to collect 7 GM scrolls and scroll your Lunchbox. If you're scrolling a Caravella, logically you'll need less than 7 GM scrolls because it's possible to land a couple 30s on the Caravella before GMing it. I know one person with a legit perfect 1h sword. As far as other items go, landing 7 30s or getting enough legit White Scrolls to scroll a perfect item... it's possible, but then, so is winning the lottery.

However, as far as 10 ilbis in a random shop... give me a break. People grind for like 12 hours a day on Maple sometimes. So someone goes to WS and farms there for a long time and finds 10 ilbies. On 2x drop it's not that hard. That's not like getting a perfect Dragon Claymore. As far as the character name being unremarkable, one of the high lvl people in my alliance is aznclaricc18 or something like that. It's a name you'd think belonged to a lvl 20 niblet, but she's really up there. Not every high lvl legit has an epic name.