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

[Aegis]

You are contradicting yourself here.
If there is a phase in a fight when you can't DPS, allowing TP users to recover a bit, then same goes for the bard.
If you sing for TP during these phases, lowering your damage doesn't matter since you can't DPS anyway.

So, a good bard would take this opportunity to do a TP song to give a few ticks of TP regen for the team, and then turn it off when the "invulnerability phase" ends.

Actually, (and this was a few pages a go, so you're forgiven for not noticing it) I mentioned that during invulnerability phases I use Mage's Ballad, better than doing nothing.

WALLOFTEXT hits you for 99,999

*eyesbleed*