Bard: The (Nearly) Perfect Job

[Grimoire-M]

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Numbers wise the Quick Nock spam is 20-30 potency * the haste boost at each interval past the first one. I'm assuming it's being used after WM/Ballad where ideally you're dotting anyways. I used a 2.5 gcd for everything.

Paeon's assumed to be 20s in the single target rotation which gives 8 GCDs, 2 of which I'm setting aside for refreshing IJ and Straight Shot. You can get the guaranteed RS Refulgent Barrage out of it that with perfect DoT management allowing you to delay IJ into WM/RS, delaying WM usage by a GCD if you can afford to wait, or spending a Straight Shot proc on Straight Shot to maintain cooldown uptime, which I believe breaks even or is a slight loss depending on whether that Refulgent would've crit.

The Greedy opener is as follows: Storm (Pot) -> Caustic (Paeon/Empyreal Arrow) -> Crit (Bloodletter/Battle Voice) -> Heavy (Minuet/Raging Strikes + SS proc) -> Iron Jaws (Barrage/Sidewinder) -> Refulgent Arrow -> Normal rotation

With the extra Heavy Shot added in and the requirement to hold onto WM it's better to hold onto RS and blow Empyreal Arrow/BV/Bloodletter asap to get the extra haste and get to RS/WM. You'll lose too much from PP to make it worthwhile to use RS earlier but the Barraged Refulgent Arrow under TA/RS should make up for the potential loss (if your skill speed's too low) of an Emp Arrow under RS. This opener gets worse with a late TA timing however.

[MPNZ]

Perhaps it's me, but I don't have any sort of hotbar clutter on BRD - I actually have free spaces on my hotbars, even with 2 to 3 macros for Minne/Palisade targets (one specific, and one just for <tt>, and then the naked ones if I need to pick someone other than the tanks for some reason).

Yeah, we have the least problems with clutter, but with the least common denominator being the crossbar: we are close enough to having 32 actions that we do have a logical reason to worry about button bloat issues that could possibly occur in the near future.

[Grimoire-M]

Personally I have 4 buttons that are in the same location for all jobs. LB, Choco, sprint, and a button to remove some UI to recover some screen economy during raid.
With BRD I have Pelo, three Minne buttons (normal for myself, <tt>, <mo> for everyone els), two Palisade buttons (normal that should really be <mo>, <tt>), Silence/stun in case I need to bring them, and 3 potion buttons depending on what I'm willing to use on a fight, in addition to all the usual nonsense. Some of that is excessive clutter admittedly, but it's nice to have it all set ahead of time.