Rofl this thread makes me giggle. Bards are pretty damn fantastic, besides the fact that they will almost ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS be playing a song which means 20% reduced damage. Either Mana or TP for the rest of the group.

They are a support class and they do it very well, if a bard didnt have to play any songs they would do amazing dps, but since their songs are required by many groups they will almost always have the 20% damage nerf. That is why they have such great skills and dps cooldowns to try and make up for that 20% nerf.