personally i dont think any of the magical spells are good outside abyssea. but there's no point in using them anyways unless you're fighting something that only takes magic damage (cuz its in the air or w/e). outside we have breath spells and /thf.

Long recasts still force you to think. Maybe BLM/BRD have to wait ten minutes between Bard procs due to terrible accuracy
i can land threnody on blu/brd or whm/brd. only a few nm's are super resistant and not immune. this is the price you pay for going /brd and not bringing a main brd. if you have problems on every nm, maybe go skill your singing up to 45 cap. its not about accuracy its that brd only has a C rank in singing and you're /brd with no instrument. you could buy a Singing+3 earring and trade ABC's for the Musical Earring. And i believe auger's legs have +4 singing skill.