JMS: The Countdown begins..

Those 999 quests you speak of, do they have to be done every time you want to get to the higher maps, or just once? If it's just once... then who cares? It'd take like 2 hours at best. Besides, if you can't kill 999 of the monster, you probably shouldn't be in that map anyway.

just once. if you're soloing, it takes a shiitload of time.. and yeah, I know you should be partying for that stuff, but after the initial excitement of time temple wore off, no one goes there anymore. it's basically impossible to find parties.