Need Help with Bard Extra Skills

[pandabearcat]

Bardo is correct that SLOW and HEAVY are two different things. Slow is attack and cast speed (I noticed a difference in boss AoE cast times), while heavy is movement.

As for invigorate, its a must.

I do not know what the other DoW's in your group are doing...but the math is pretty obvious.

Lancers, almost all their attacks are 60 TP. 70 TP every 20 seconds or so for buffs.

For us, its 60, 70, 80. Every ~20 seconds, we need at least 1 70 (more with straighter arrow procs), and 2 80's. Much more if multidotting. Lancers also have better invig (500 vs 400).

It might not seem like much (10, 20 more), but this is over a period of 120 seconds (Invig cd), and TP regen is designed that it is almost exactly 60 TP every 3 seconds, so you will stabilize with 60, which means lancers are much closer to stabilizing than bards.

Pugilists have attacks that cost 60, 50, and are even MORE efficient.

Bards are by far the least efficient DoW dps.