HW bard- channeling?

[pandabearcat]

Naw Dervy you are overthinking it.

I've shown like first week of bard it is physically impossible to miss a BL proc if you wait for an oGCD. Similarly, since GCDs are 2.5 and ticks are 3 sec baseline, SS will scale your GCD down faster than it will scale down ticks, so...unless something happens with animations that prevents you from executing gcd > bl > gcd then there is no problem here.

I would say unless there are TP issues SS will scale it better, because

1. SS increases in effectiveness the more you have.
2. BL behaves oddly at high crits, namely RoB procs, as shown here: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/103696-Bards-and-BL-and-Crit-and-RoB