I started off as a career BLM, switched to career BRD as soon as I hit 75 with it and enjoyed the game a -lot- more, and now I've switched back to BLM now that Abyssea is out. I go BLM/BRD a lot - it's damn near impossible to land Threnodies without ES, but you generally only need to land one every ten minutes anyway.

I'd love for BRD to be relevant again, but I don't really see it being relevant in XP parties in Abyssea (since the BRD buffs are unnecessary compared to the buffs from Atma), and I only see it being relevant in outside-Abyssea events inasmuch as the outside-Abyssea events are made relevant again by SE's content updates. (Which is what I'm hoping for; in the meantime I'm enjoying BLM again for the first time in years, so I'm not unhappy.)

It's a crying shame that we finally got movement speed boots at the precise time when we didn't terribly need them anymore, though