Actually in HW, big trash pulls the BRD was just as good as the top AoE'ers. Usually you were able to get off a MINIMUM of a 350 potency AoE damage every GCD with no fall off to any of the AoE damage (often could get 500 potency per GCD though). It was just rare to see ones do it correctly lol.
SB though they're kinda gutted on it now though. If you ask me, all the great AoE classes got their AoE's gutted. So to ask for it back isn't going to happen. We all suffered the same fate in the AoE department.