Good bards will still be on par with good black mages.
Bad bards will now suck as bad black mages.

Before 2.1 (well, now) good bards could solo titan's heart (unlike any other dps class, even melee).

Bard deserved a nerf, deal with it. It's on par with the other ranged classes now.

To be honest as a tank i didn't like RoD change. It was a pretty useful debuff.
Also 200TP for accuracy down is just useless.