~Other partys
All the "burn" partys:
1) 4 blm, brd or rdm, something else
2) 4 rng, brd, some mage to heal
3) 4 war, ...
4) 4 mnk, ...
and whatever others there are that people have been creating
As ninja I liked the nin, war, thf, rng, brd, whm or rdm pt, that is nice and you only have 1 mage.
If you have a strong enough melee force you can drop the blm which actually can run through mobs very fast. My set with my brd is whm, smn, brd, war, nin and rng we are at 60 now and we can get close to 7K an hour without a blm, we just have mass melee.
It seems that people want to stick to the conventional partys because they are the safest and can usually work in any area vs almost an mobs. If you have smart enough plays you can get away with probably any real pt set up if you know how to work it.