looks like no DAR

Dedicating yourself to something like this for 10 days still isn't the appropriate means of obtaining something that is, for lack of a better term, godly. Something so good should take months of grinding until one lucky day you stumble upon it and weep tears of blood and then fight amongst yourselves about who gets it until it disappears and none of you get it and you vow to never make the same mistake again so instead create a debate sub-forum here at southperry where we all judge you like in an election and decide who is most worthy and in what order. The last place people will likely drop out and compete with/dc hack the other group with an "if I can't have it, nobody can!" mentality.

That's the way godly items should be dealt with. Anything less is laughable and just shows how little Nexon cares about the state of this game. Good things need to be worked hard for. Harder than 10 days of strategic button clicking and meso/NX spending to reset your fatigue and get all the materials you need.

I normally don't respond to posts from multiple pages past, but I can't help be to shake my head at this.

What you're saying is tantamount to...
"If you want to be wealthy and successful, you should be buying lottery tickets every day until you eventually win. Because using forethought, having a business plan, and wisely utilizing your resources are all laughable endeavors. Everyone knows that anything worth having should only come from one thing: pure, unadulterated dumb pineappleing luck."

I've always found items that are virtually one-of-a-kind to be one of the dumbest things MMOs have ever implemented. Because, in many senses, it does create this truly unobtainable goal.

On the other hand, I love event items. Giving players something to do (that doesn't involve ad nauseum repetition) and having a reward for doing so is the perfect way to keep your players playing. That's why I think the Visitor Event was the absolute best event Maplestory has ever thrown. Sure, you had to endlessly repeat steps if you wanted permanent equipment, but, overall, it kept things fresh.

Granted, I still think that everyone expecting us to get a copy-pasta'd event were a bit daffy.
If anything, I'd expect Nexon America to give us more time to max out our professions.
It'd be like an Evolving Ring event where you actually had to do something other than be AFK.