Nonsense, if you don't raid savage, you are going to use this weapon for 4 months (you upgrade it's item level down the line).
7 Weeks acquisition time is completely justified.
Well, I don't agree there. An item that has nearly a whole third of its shelf life consumed by the time it takes to acquire a single one of them (because there's no way people play multiple roles/classes in this game, by the way) is a ridiculous practice.

If you don't raid savage, you don't need this weapon anyway. Content you do is already trivial in difficulty.
These arguments always sucked, BTW.

Raider or not, everyone still wants to get more powerful in an RPG. How often have you chased after ultimate weapons/equipment in games where you absolutely didn't need them to be able to win?