Bard is utterly destroyed

[Furyan]

Bloodletter is shared with Rain of a Death for whatever reason I can\\\\\\'t even think of

This is actually a good thing. Its shares a recast with bloodletter but it is also affected by the reset from the dots. So in an AoE situation you apply your dots and spam wide volley as usual, but instead of rain of death becoming free from wide volley, its a free instant OGC skill when your DOT's proc it. Which from my eyeballing is way more often than it was before.

In some situations, with internal release up and 3-4 dots on mobs, I find myself having unlimited rain of death procs to cast.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this better?

Also, in regards to the new song. A smart bard would pop the song during a phase where movement isn't needed, hit Buffs > Barrage > Empy Arrow for 3k+ dmg > Sidewinder for another huge burst hit, then turn the song off until the cooldowns become available again for huge burst.

Instead of looking at this new song as the "new" way to play bard, look at is as another layer, another tool which we may use if the situation calls for it.

[xenok]

This is actually a good thing. Its shares a recast with bloodletter but it is also affected by the reset from the dots. So in an AoE situation you apply your dots and spam wide volley as usual, but instead of rain of death becoming free from wide volley, its a free instant OGC skill when your DOT's proc it. Which from my eyeballing is way more often than it was before.

The problem with this is that it destroys another skill, wide volley. Quick Nock is more TP efficient, but the reason you use Wide Volley is a) the circular aoe (minor reason) and b) the chance to proc a free RoD. These days, I never use wide volley anymore, instead I stand near the tank and use Quick instead.

This is the difficult and tricky thing about changing skills; there are secondary and tertiary effects. I can live with the new RoD, but the devs need to do something to make wide volley more viable or not obsolete.