Well you have to remember that they may be first timers too. No money to learn all the skills, no spirit to learn genie skills, no elixers to get pots etc etc....That was my situation on my main (which is a caster) and it took me a good while to do a pv.
Thats exactly how my Psy was. I just learnt my aoes, black voodoo and immune to damage skill. (Forgot name) And I was set to go.
I have to disagree with you on the difficulty of leveling a veno nexy, bramblehood may keep them alive but the spammed interrupts makes aoeing very difficult, not to mention even at 150 an AA veno has abt 10k pdef only (standup).
Fosilised curse = 10 second ironguard skill (level 79 veno skill)