Quote Originally Posted by Cabalabob View Post
That leaves SMN, any utility debuffs it brings can be covered by SCH, it doesn't benefit from foe requiem as it's spells are non elemental, it doesn't have anything that co-ordinates well with the other jobs, it can self heal but it's just not as defensive as a MNK. That's why we chose MNK over SMN
You could at least read the updated BRD ability description. I'd understand if it were still 2.0 and you were having to test things out on your own or take people's word for it, but SE has even changed the ability description to tell you that Foe works on all magical damage.