JMS: The Countdown begins..

The flame zone may be ok, but you still have 999 of all 4 Green monsters and 999 of all 4 blue monsters, as well as defeat Lilino and Dodo to get there. If you're an ice mage, that means going through monsters that are resistant to blizzard before you can get to the ones that are weak to you. The maps are all enormous, so soloing them really isn't much of an option. There are some warps you can use, but they don't help *that* much. Also, a lot of them have fairly high damage (The guardian captains were doing about 2.4k to me) and the range on their attacks is huge and unavoidable. If you mob them, you're probably going to be taking a lot of damage unless you can freeze or otherwise incapacitate them. You've still got to get through the blue ones, though.

Eh? Skeles blast me for 3.5k.

I'll wait until we get Time Temple to judge how good it is for exp. The videos do make it look very nice, especially for Marksmen/Shadowers/Buccaneers.