Ok, so. @.@
For the future of Bard, a job that I personally love, I'd like to express some of my thoughts as to how I think the job could grow in the last couple level cap increases.
--First, I feel like it's time Brd finally got a Job Trait that shortens song casting time (similar to Elemental Celerity for Blm). A first tier of a Rdm's Fast Cast would be amazing, but at least something Brd-specific to quicken song casting a little bit. It would be really nice on Inventory as well since Brds wouldn't have to lug around as much gear trying to cap Song Spellcasting time. Justification: A level 90 Brd should naturally be able to cast a song faster (Not including gear!) than a lvl 1 Brd. Amirite?
--Secondly, Brd needs more creative support songs. Scherzo was a great step in the right direction, and adding nullification to Tier II Carol's was also very useful, but otherwise it's just higher tier'd versions of songs we already have... Little lame.
I'm not saying anything's wrong with higher tier'd versions of our current songs!! @.@ But it'd be really nice to have some additional different songs to play around with and use.
Ex: -TP Regain Song? (Similar to what Cors/Schs have atm)
-Subtle Blow+ Song?
-Increased resistance to ALL Status Ailments (Nothing too OP, more so a second tier to all of those Status Resistance songs Brd gets)
-Idk, just somethin with a lil' more creativity! <.>
--Third, more offensive songs! I'm not just talking something like Horde Lullaby II (Which I'd hope we get by lvl 99! <.>). As with the second point, I'm just talking about a new type of creative enfeeble/possible nuke. Nowadays, it's usually only all about Elegy (Discounting Yellow Procs in Abyssea) as Threnodies aren't generally needed too much (still useful when applicable though), and Requiem sadly doesn't land on 99% of NMs anyways.
Please, just give us some other type of enfeeble, whether it be something similar to other jobs or something brand-new and more Brd-specific. Some kind of non-elemental Nuke song would be really interesting (think like a Sonicboom! o.O) and could put to use all that Magic Att. Bonus gear Brd can potentially use. I'm not talkin' like Blm Blizzard V damage, but something that could do respectable damage in our downtime.
That's pretty much it; I guess I'd like to add that I hope the dev. team keeps adding Brd to DD-melee orientated and more traditional Mage gear (Cure Potency comes to mind) since I love playing as a DD/solo/hardcore-support Brd lol
Hope the Dev. Team can get around to us Brds! >.< And sorry for the long post! Feel free to post any neat ideas/comments you may have for future Brd songs/JAs/JTs/etc in regards!