I agree, Bard really got shafted with its 52-60 skills, we already did fairly low dps, and now most other dps even tanks have new hard hitting skills they can use whenever, and we get this garbage? I think they need to remove all the 52-60 skills, fire whoever the idiot was who thought them up, and give us completly new ones. I would accept the new skills IF and ONLY if, they enable auto attack while in WM stance. As it is auto attacks count for 25-30% of a bards dps, mostly due to how weak our weaponskills are compared to most classes. The 20% from WM does not make up for it, not even once your 60 with all the skills.

There is something wrong when a tank class can out parse a dps class on a boss, that is the current state of bard atm, Mch is in the same boat, tanks can even make our dps look stupid.