Remember, I have been playing for more than 4 years already and I have not really taken time off form GW. My 9100+ hours of game time pretty much is testament to that.
I have never missed a festival of Nine Rings, which started when Factions was released, and then I often just stood there the whole festival.
Only when I got close to lucky did I not do it anymore, because you can get it with chests as well, which I am also still busy with.
One thing though... Lucky is definitely not cheap.. it is expensive standing on the rings for a full weekend, in some cases the festivals lasted a full week. You easily run through 200-700K in such a time, depending where you stand and how 'lucky' you are.
Unlucky is even more expensive!
The booze I did normal way... I tried the map travelling, after they said they nerfed it, but people said it could still work, but it was not very reliable and sucks balls to do.
Some people may say the big titles are easy, but then they either have not done it themselves, and they are simply shooting their mouth off or someone did it for them... because when it gets down to it, it requires serious time investment and dedication.
Also, some of the big titles are BIG time-sinks and gold-sinks. Nothing is free in life, so plan ahead, that's what I did with all of my titles.