2008-08-14, 01:13 PM
One of the reasons F/Ps are lol'd at is because there are so few of them. It's kind of an endless cycle. They've never been an extremely popular class because the other two jobs had an AoE attack in 2nd job, also there was a time when poison was considered to be "useless" (Pre-Ludi & Aqua). They were rare enough to merit faming one on sight at one point. When lukless came about most of them went F/P, which populated the class some but most of 'em quit.
When 3rd job came, I/L could mob freeze and priests could leech using HS as a means to make up for the exp they leeched as well as attack decently with SR. F/P looked pretty silly by comparison because Aqua and Ludi weren't out yet (no monsters with high enough hp to take advantage of mist, explo being affected by weapon speed wasn't known yet). Now with 4th a lot of people think Meteor is their only redeeming and useful skill, which isn't true, but it makes even more people not wanna try the class because it doesn't sound like one skill is rewarding enough. It's basically just one big reverse bandwagon effect of misconceptions and general disinterest for the most part. o_O
When 3rd job came, I/L could mob freeze and priests could leech using HS as a means to make up for the exp they leeched as well as attack decently with SR. F/P looked pretty silly by comparison because Aqua and Ludi weren't out yet (no monsters with high enough hp to take advantage of mist, explo being affected by weapon speed wasn't known yet). Now with 4th a lot of people think Meteor is their only redeeming and useful skill, which isn't true, but it makes even more people not wanna try the class because it doesn't sound like one skill is rewarding enough. It's basically just one big reverse bandwagon effect of misconceptions and general disinterest for the most part. o_O