You must've PTed with bad BRD then. Any good BRD should NEVER EVER EVER EVER be standing around. I've rarely been in a PT when there wasn't something to do. And also songs should NEVER wear off. A BRD should continue to sing his cycle endlessly so that songs don't even drop while Erasing, Curing, Barspelling, -naing etc.

Also good BRDs should cater to the needs of the PT members. This is especially true with RNGs. Some endgame might prefer 2xMinuet because they have a crapload of Racc gear but some might need Prelude or even STR Etude.

Largely BRDs are lazy. Most people take BRD from 1-75 in 2 months tops and never really buy gear for the job and use it only as their merit job. I hate these BRDs.

But still I have to say that there aren't many options songwise for us. I find plenty to do with my /WHM when I'm not singing but there's nothing to be done about the songs. There simply are only a handful of songs that everyone wants. If you tried to sing something different that you think would benefit the PT more you will get tells asking you for something else.

For instance... before they recently nerfed the TP floor it was more beneficial in general to sing March+Minuet in certain types of high chain PTs. This has been parsed and actually does more damage over time but for most PTs with normal gear setups. However, if you try March+Minuet in one of these PTs you will start getting tells from all of your melees to sing them 2xMinuet generally because they want to see bigger numbers. They think because their numbers are slightly lower and much faster that you are a bad BRD when really you made their DoT much higher and the chains much faster.