Simple changes that would tremendously help PvP

[Valence]

I keep seeing people pooping on BRD in general, but I actually feel like I am controlling the flow of combat as BRD in CC. It's kind of a neat roll buffing people and crowd controlling targets while still doing a decent bit of burst on the enemy team. I feel like most people who play BRD anywhere in FFXIV really just want Ranger from 11 or Hunter from wow instead of the BRD/RNG highbred we got.

They don't, because as soon as bard loses most of its buffs (cf ShB pve) all hell gets loose (with reason).

But otherwise yeah BRD buffs in pvp right now are way more prevalent than the shitty DNC partner, that's at best good for the fan dance IV damage reduction but is otherwise a single target only for the rest, and restrained by range as well (BRD is as well but doesn't have to worry about the partner going to narnia, rest of the party still receives buffs).

Also, I've seen an actual lack of good bards in pvp. BRD has a pretty good sustained damage and can actually secure kills for itself with a little burst that will deal quite a bit of damage while the target is silenced. You can feel the difference when you get targeted by a good bard player, it often gets you off guard because you're just not used to it. Good luck surviving a bard bursting you down when you're half HP and they silence you there. The time to purify if you have it, and it's often too late not to just die. The great thing about nocturne isn't that it's CC, is that it's an OGCD CC which means it's decoupled from your burst actions.

BRD is one of those pvp jobs that has a very diffuse effect on games and that is extremely hard to measure (vs "omg the DRG just killed 3 people with LB" kind of deal). 10% damage buff for instance, is always hard to feel ingame, but sometimes it's also probably the difference between a death or not (10% of a 50k burst? That's 55k now. 10% of a damage tally? That's 10% more pressure on enemy resources... does it makes up for taking a bard instead of say, another melee dps? I don't know).

Now I'll be the first one to admit that BRD's LB is atrocious, especially on its terrible charge time (but not only), but for the rest the job is pretty solid. Paean is actually insane as well.