If you gave me 1000 skill speed right now I wouldn't take it.

Its not the numbers being low that make it poor, its the fact that it cannot actually help your dps if you are running out on long fights.

It needs to be redesigned.

I understand that they need Bards to be useful with their songs, but the TP song is also fairly lackluster, and is a dps loss while singing it.

Shrug. Support has its uses but your stats should not be useless.