How many people will start again in Phase 2? How many won't?

[AndyB]

There was no BONUS exp from partying.

There was hardly any incentive for clerics to party except to spend more money on mp stones and get less loot unless they were fighting Bosses or extremely higher monsters.

Fighters and clerics can solo effectively on monsters thier own level without too much if any downtime. Outspark left archers and mages out in the cold though...

In the lower level soloing a fighter is actually quite hard if you want to conserve stones, you have to rest in your house like every 2-3 kills, once you get to higher levels and i'd say this counts for any class(mages and archers too) you find enough drops to be able to level without worrying about resting in the house.