Honestly, I still stand by it being absolutely ridiculous that we, for a long time, had higher throwing skill than hand to hand skill, yet could not even equip a throwing weapon because of our animator. Just put some dmg/delay on them and be done with it, it's not like the different animators have anything actually different about them, aside from how much dex they give, and that they're not animator +1, giving HP/MP.

Quote Originally Posted by Kristal View Post
I'll have to test it myself, because that's not how I remember it when I posted something similar years ago. I'm not 100% sure about fishing rods, but instrument swapping does not cause TP loss. I have entire macro swaps around that for my low level bard. (Perhaps that is what I remember, only instrument > instrument not causing TP loss.)
Every melee brd set up created by anyone who's ever played bard disagrees with you.