I mean... If you can get someone to not go full V2... by any means... it's for their own good. Tough love.
You can take 6 whm/nin in weatherspoon and beat easy V1. Absolutely zero excuses to do anything less.
I know you're just going for hyperbole but there's no way you could beat easy V1 with that group, you couldn't even beat VE.
I'm pretty confident you could. I would totally join a group if someone wants to do it. 6 whm/nin no gear with augments. skirmish weatherspoon or inyanga, ayanmo is too stronk.
half an hour to do 6 million damage? Only 1700 dps total.
I have tried several vol1 E with 4 returning on a low end gear jobs using random setup, it's really not as easy as people think.
If I duo with another high end support player on a high end job, then E can be cleared. But change every member to returning player gear level it become so much harder.
Last month, I've joined E pt that simply can't remove aura at all because every DD (real dds, not whm/nin)miss their swings, and nm stay at 90% after 10 min of fight. So the wipe happened over and over.
A spark geared whm/nin will likely do horrible dps, fight takes forever, and run out of mp healing without mp recovery from other job nor gears in vol1 E. Even if they do magically clear the pt will be way too slow to worth staying so people will leave. That's not remotely close to ideal method to farm ambuscade for returning players.
If a new player has jobs like pup, nin, bst in sparks gear, fat chance is that the best way to farm ambuscade is to team up with 2-3 returning player for vol2. Nobody would respond a vol1 VE shout and from my experience there's a pretty big difficulty jump from vol1 VE to E.