To be honest, while BRD is a good class, I do NOT like its place currently. It's the poster child for a lot of things wrong with the meta of XIV. And a lot of it doesn't solely have to do with the class.

Main issues are obviously the following:
- Crit/RNG Reliant
- Piercing Damage
- Burst Cooldown phase does not line up with raid buffs.
- Low personal DPS if your group does not/is not skilled enough to take advantage of the above.
- Refresh & Tactician

The Piercing Debuff issue is known and not exclusive to BRD, but they're doubly reliant on having a Dragoon in their group because of Battle Litany. Crit is king on this class and they want every raid buff they can get in order to shine. AST in particular is able to inflate BRD's output with consistent Spear feeding too.

Refresh/Tactician bothers me more and more lately because it forces BRD/MCH into every group. It would be nice to see BLM/SMN/RDM get more buffs to Mana Shift to make it competitive. At the moment it takes three caster dps spamming it on cooldown to match what one ranged dps brings. I feel it should be pushed closer than that, ideally by lowering the cooldown to 90s and changing it to restore 30% of the target's MP at the cost of 10% of the caster's MP. For Tactician I don't have a good solution other than give us more role skill slots so melee can use Goad, which would also help healers/tanks a bit, or add more marginal dps loss TP restores like Purification into all melee DPS (Hyoton restores TP. Add a TP restore that only works when Dive Ready, pay 25 Kenki for it on SAM, and so on).

DPS wise I'd like BRD to get a buff to its reliable DPS sources at a cost to its procs. This is primarily to mitigate the power of Battle Litany/Chain Stratagem/Spear stacking, which reduces BRD's need for it. Just a slight boost of 10 potency to Heavy Shot while reducing Bloodletter by 10 and PP by 10/20/30, based on stack count.

Foes simply needs to be made into an actual raid buff. With a cooldown, and instant cast. Alternatively make it another song with a different proc that is geared towards single targets, while making Paeon into a much better AoE boost. For Paeon my idea was to make Quick Nock consume one of its stacks for extra potency (10) during its duration, while Foes works in a similar way. It would have 5 stacks and give Heavy Shot a 10-50 potency boost depending on stack count, but do nothing else for you.


Finally, make Raging Strikes 90 seconds. It's way better in the long run if it lines up with raid buffs/ your song rotation naturally.