Help with bard skills

[ErosPsyche1]

Hey guys, how're you doing. I don't know if this is the right spot for this, forgive me if it isn't.

The thing is that I hit lv 50 with the bard and I've read some guides about the rotation at this level so far, but there's a thing that I still don't get. The use of bloodletter and rain of death skills, I mean they do lesser damage than their homonims: Heavy Shot and Quick Nock respectively and they also have time for CD; I know that the CD of those abilities can be reseted through Mage's Ballad but even with it, doesn't seem worth to me at first sight why don't just use the others.

Am I missing something?

Thank you.

[HyoMinPark]

Bloodletter and Rain of Death are oGCDs—off-global cooldowns. Heavy Shot and Quick Nock are GCDs—skills that are on the global cooldown. You are able to weave in an oGCD between two GCDs, thereby gaining the benefit of both without interrupting your GCD.

So, for a single target, you would weave Bloodletter between Heavy Shot uses: Heavy Shot > Bloodletter weave > Heavy Shot > Heavy Shot > etc.. Repeat each time Bloodletter comes off cooldown or is reset during Mage’s Ballad.

For multiple targets, you would weave Rain of Death between Quick Nock uses: Quick Nock > Rain of Death weave > Quick Nock > Quick Nock > etc.. Repeat each time Rain of Death comes off cooldown or is reset during Mage’s Ballad.

Under no condition should you not use Bloodletter or Rain of Death. They should be used with your GCD skills to push out more damage. There will be other oGCDs introduced to BRD: you will use them in a similar fashion: woven between GCDs. You should be able to comfortably weave up to 2 oGCDs between GCDs.

[ErosPsyche1]

I do get it now. I haven't noticed that you were able to use those skills between the others, now it really makes sense.

Thanks for your time, you saved me.