The Best EXP in the game

4th job ended MEing Zakum, not Apples. Apples make it merely go faster.

Apples fueled the fire. It's a pretty big advantage in general anyway. I'm confused now though, which came out first? Pretty sure apples were out before 4th.

Apples came out before 4th job.
It used to be a REQUIREMENT that a Zakum group would use the buyer's mesos to buy apples for their 'broken hermits' so that their run ended in a 'decent lower time'.

When apples came out, people were saying how "broken" they are, and now everyone uses them in boss runs. I'm pretty sure its a 'requirement' to give every attacking hermit apples before their Horntail runs, just so that it can go 'merely faster', as you put it.

When people first saw the apples, they thought, "damn, they're broken." What I don't get is why they don't see, "Whoa, we don't have to take that effing long to kill Zakum anymore."

Why don't you look at it this way. If you don't like that you have to fight it, just get a mage to help you out. It goes under the same reasoning as if you found a pianus or a pap, you would most likely call one or two other NL/BM players to help you (or try soloing and get KSed...). Instead of standing there trying kill the thing forever, which I'm pretty sure you won't find appealing either.

And if Bigfoot REALLY did have 32M hp, then it would be almost another form of Tengu. They just sit there in the map until someone needs it to train. In this case, nobody needs to train in the maps they spawn in, so if they were unpoisonable, they'd sit there... probably forever. Until someone needs the quest. Then we'll have people saying that it's 'broken' because they would have to fight a monster much stronger than their level.

Ice Demon does in fact work. The damage shows up in blue as HP regen and for about 10 seconds Bigfoot's HP does not go down, but after those couple of seconds if you hit it again his HP bar will be about halfway down and he continues to lose HP even though by the blue numbers he is supposedly healing. Its very glitchy.

Yes, today, while hunting for Bigfoot, I did note that although it says its healing, it's actually not.

Bigfoot should stay the way he his SOLELY because F/P have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in their advantage compared to all the advantages that other classes have gotten in the past. Apples for NLs (way to pineapple over shadowers and their ME guys), skeles for bishops, etc.

That is very true. Finally, an incentive to allow people to start playing FP and someone complains. The result is that FP mages are very low in population right now. An IL mage is the first to reach Lv 200, followed by the Bishop. Where are the FP mages? Without incentive to play, that is what's called a broken class, if people only play to be different.


Finally, I'd like to point out that for some reason, everyone seems to be targeting FP mages as the 'broken' class. Although I'm FP and I'm posting pics on them being misted, don't forget that:

1. hermits can 'web' this monster (yea, even if they fight the real thing, it wouldn't take even half as long as a AM fighting it.)

2. Marksmen can 'snipe' this thing (DCs them but they still get the exp.)

3. And finally, if they were fighting the 'real deal', then BM and NL can still pin them and avoid attack.

4. Warriors can 'rush evade' it, and even STUN it. Wow, why doesn't anyone say stunning is broken. Your pretty much hitting a rock that isn't taking up your potions.

Broken would be the mages, unable to kill it without help should this boss be changed. (As with all bosses, mages need help. Finally, a boss comes out in which a mage doesn't need help and everyone complains.)