So, I had my first ride on the NM train last night. I tried parties, but people only want to fight things 2 maybe three levels higher than them, and the XP was crappy. So I soloed, and I was getting decent XP doing chains of 30.

Then it happened. The fate train went past me and spawned the sea bishop. So I jump in that fight and I get 3K in XP. I'm like WTF, for that little bit of work. So I hop on the train and do three more fates, where I get 6K, 6K, and 7K, so I rode for the rest of the time left. Afterwards, I'm sitting there thinking what have I been missing grinding just to get to level six when I can go from level 6-7 in a fraction of the time.

I was barely damaging these NMs, and died quickly to AOEs. There was actually a point I felt bad because I couldn't really contribute, and people in my party had to continually raise me. But there's absolutely no incentive for anyone to do anything other than run around with the people doing this.