Thing about bard is that it's meant to be more of a support role than it is meant to be a DPS one. A lot of Bards don't play songs at all to help their team because they are too concern about their own damage to help manage their parties resources. Which is why I always feel grateful to join a good bards party or when they join a party I'm in. Also I do try and do all that micromanage of resource for my team when I leveled my bard.

I know some bards just want to go crazy with their numbers but Bard is not that kind of job. They did mention 2nd Jobs for classes and it's most likely that Archers second job will be more DPS oriented but for now we don't really know how they will address it.