Quote Originally Posted by Grundy View Post
Circa 2008
Me: Hi! New <Warrior> looking for party <Please invite me?>
Reply: Can you /NIN?
Me: No
Reply: Go level NIN n00b
That was mostly just bads not understanding how good a great axe war actually was, especially before Rampage is available. They saw Maneater/Ridill wars tearing things up and figured that was the only way to go the whole levelling process.