Ask a Magician Thread.

Is going Explosion first and training at Typhons viable for F/Ps nowadays? Fire Gear training was pretty costly on my Blaze Wizard, and I don't know if I want to go through that again.

I don't believe many F/Ps have tested going with explosion after it was made faster. It did indeed increase significantly in speed, but I still believe poison mist training will be much faster (if you can afford it).
You could go explosion first and delay mist training to levels 90-100 where it starts getting easier (more hp/mp and having booster and explosion help it) and explosion training gets slower.

The only problem with explosion training is that, unless you are low-luk with a very good evil wings you will be limited to either a weak weapon or a slow weapon (until the level 103 estaff).

PS: Anyone care to upgrade the attack speed tables for explosion?