Quote Originally Posted by Ninian View Post
They're not needed though. Hopefully more content will be added that makes BRD a must-have job.

As for Threnody procs, you can just have a BLM sub BRD, Elemental Seal+Threnody is much more reliable than trying to spam it until it sticks.
Bards were never really a must have job outside of zerging(maybe). I have done plenty of the end game content without them but its obviously much easier and faster with them. This applies to Abyssea as well.