Troll thread? This doesn't seem to have anything to do with endgame, just bitching about "the good old days". I don't see what's so great about them since a BLM will almost always get faster XP either soloing or manaburning once you're past the staves level. There's Vunk Inlet tiger burns you can sync to in the 50s and then tiger burns in Xarc S you can sync to from 61+. You also have MMM for powerful burns ~74+. And pet soloing will outpace pretty much any "normal" party except for birds and a few others.
Normal parties are boring too. You have to sit around waiting for the melees and tank to build up hate, and nuke gently like some Orastery trainee. You have to put up with their inconsistent WS timing which throws off your nuke timing. If you pull hate it's all ">:[ BLM" but when a melee blows his WS wad early and pulls hate it's like "XD cure pls lol". Solo and manaburn you shake what Shantotto gave ya and live on the edge of death. Exciting ***!