I remember a long time ago I shouted 3 or 4 times to try to get the pitchfork (I think you needed 2 ppl from home nation or something like that) decided meh w/e and moved on ...
:< I was tempted to encourage a buddy to play (or just pay for another account for a month), to get the Gold World Pass deal for an event item voucher just so I could get dat polearm...