What? Other classes have it so it's not useful? That makes zero sense. A PLD can handle silence sure, but I'm not sure how you can argue BRD's is moot when it has both a shorter wind up and can be used at range. RoH and Storm's Path are not redundant either, by your logic BRD's having RoD was redundant since a PLD was already supplying RoH like they do Spirits Within. Slash resist is pretty crappy by the way, no group would bring a WAR for that. The only reason a WAR kept it up to begin with was because it combined with Maim and gave much better returns on IB.
BRD's don't have a ton of varied utility spells sure, but even with the few tools they do have they bring more to the table than any other dps class.
I think it's a leap to think this has anything to do with PvP. This was purely another change to get more groups to actually use a PLD/WAR combo. They've said repeatedly they do not want class stacking, and the change to LB generation takes that a step further. BRDs got caught in this because BRDs offer so much utility that losing RoD doesn't break their desirability in any way.
