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

[Cyrus-Wallace]

Most people, including myself, play Bard because it's the range dps they enjoy most. Too many pet peeves with Summoner and Black Mage. I didn't play Bard to sing but I will if need be. But singing isn't my top priority. I care more about dealing good dps than singing. And often times I may not agree with the use of a song when I feel dps is more important.

If DPS is important for you, you should use Foe Requiem if you have casters in your party. (Which I hope that's an "I'll use it if needed" situation for you) That doesn't decrease your DPS at all and even though the MP consumption of that skill is really high, it increases the overall damage done by all magic users, WHM using holy included. Using it on big pulls with the conditions I mentioned above or during a boss fight will actually help YOU as well.

But if there's a summoner in the group, priority for raises goes to them. Summoner is all honestly is just about as much support as Bard.

I, however, agree with this. We always want to take care of our healer's MP and wasting MP due of several raises is something we like to avoid by having a SMN with us.