Song Mechanic and Heat Mechanic {Theory}

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even back in 2.0 Bard was still lacking with Auto-attacks. As the developers said they revamped each Job based around their new Mechanic thus by my theory keeping up the Song bar may be required if bards wish to perform at their highest DPS to keep up their 30% damage boost or else they're stuck with 2.0 DPS rate.

It is maybe a revamp measure to make players always play Bard the way it is intended thus avoiding the continue issue we have now where Bard players completely ignore the Songs because they see no person gain from it.

Auto attacks are a SIGNIFICANT portion of your dps. In fact back on release when WM was only a 20% increase, it was actually a dps loss in all situations.