I choose BRD because i always play ranged dps and we already had 3 main BLM's. For the guy talking about "endgame setups", i can tell you this. In my group we still have to find a fight where BRDs song make the difference in winning or loosing. We are currently farming turn 1 to 4 whitout using bard songs.
The funny thing is the fact that most of the reply are a direct attack to me and are from people which still have to play the current endgame.

Lets go back to the point (i never said im the best, i only replyed to the "go play another class" whit "i already have them, geared", no need to extrapolate that and make me a nerd elitist monster from the space, because im not)

BRD --> medium to lowest dps in the game --> nerf ---> we want to know what will become of the class --> 2 option after that for my FC

a) move the weekly points/allagan drop to another DD class
b) keep gearing the FC BRDs