looks like no DAR

yeah, too bad months of grinding isn't enough. in kms people train at the tot monster that supposedly drops it consistently, and zakum every time they're allowed. not a single recipe has been proven to have dropped. for anyone. ever. that in and of itself is a problem. although this might be giving nexon too much credit, i feel like the ring's drop rate was either made extremely low or removed temporarily on purpose, given how easy they were to get in the first place.

That's NOT a problem. A rare drop is a sweet prize. Everything -- EVERYTHING in this game is handed to people. And it's handed to people with money the most. This was almost the case with this item too, but Nexon said "nooooooooooooooooooooooope, not today." And that's a damn fine thing. You want a good item? You work for you. You pray for it. If it's not worth that to you then you don't get the item. That's all there should be to it.

Wait, aren't you the one who militantly hates botting/exploiting/duping? You realize the benefit of doing those things increases the more Nexon relies on rarity to cover bad game design, right?

Appropriate risk/reward is constructive game design. Increasingly obscene rarity encourages people to cut corners.

What the dark angelic bless ring opportunity would have rewarded was a lot of ore mining on mules, or FM foresight. Are you suggesting that restricting rewards to repeatedly grinding at one location is preferable to that? Especially since a lot of ore mining on mules and market forces changing FM to reflect the new crafting system was invariably in our future anyway.

Basically, you'd be saying there should only be one way to play, and it should be the most boring and arbitrary possible. I tend to disagree.

It doesn't encourage anything of the sort. Lack of self-control, sense of entitlement and poor rationalizations are what fuel "corner-cutting." If you want something you damn well better work for it if that's what's necessary. There's no excuse for anything less.

I don't understand how people expect to get by in life when they just want everything handed to them. Did you all grow up under mommy and daddy's wallet where they could buy your way through life and looked the other way when you did wrong?

Grinding in one place may be boring as pineapple but when I hunted monster cards that's exactly what I did and when I was finally rewarded with what I was hunting for it was a damn good feeling. Nothing like that exists in MapleStory anymore, and I personally look forward to such a thing returning.