In terms of what T5? Granted bard is the lowest dps class I still pull out at lowest 250 dps in T5, just remember though bard is more for boosting others than themselves, such as army's for a monk or foe for the mages which the loss of our dps is compensated and with 2.1 will be way overcompensated for the boost we give others. Still not happy about bards being "nerfed" for no reason what so ever, perhaps SE will learn from this mistake and 2.2 will have a bard "boost."