WHY ARE YOU PLAYING A BARD IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SING?!

[Illya]

Or the bard can do their job. Bard has most of the time the least to do in a party (outside of silencing, which most bards don't do). It's not hard to watch for low mp, or toss a requiem when you're Mage heavy. After all bard rotation is 4 to 5 actions at most :/.

So you've never actually played bard then.