ShB Bard wishlists?

[Sylvain]

Warden's Paean is actually situationally useful and can make the difference between someone living and dying in the right hands. It's the only instant cast Esuna-type skill in the entire game, and the only one that outright blocks those types of debuffs ahead of time. It was a big factor in enabling me to successfully tank Mist Dragon without dying last week. I've saved a lot of people in the 24-man raids with it, in situations that a healer would have a very difficult time reproducing with Esuna. I wouldn't trade it for anything.

But there you said it, in mist dragon... an expert.

This is somehow the core of the issue, the skill is only usable in casual content but requires expert hand (because a casual barely knowing what he's doing will never use it)

If they were to put more debuff (and reduce Esuna recast time to its cast time...) that would definitely be a good skill. But it currently isn't, because no situation makes it useful.

Another example would be Dismantle. Dismantle is a very powerful tool because you can stack it with Reprisal and it makes a lot of difference in late Savage (looking at you Ion Flux).

However, if no attack in the game would do more than expert level damage... then... what would be the point of dismantle?
No one would care, it would just be a trash ability because there's no need for damage mitigation.

A great tool is useless if you can't use it, and this applies to a lot of things, like WHM "over abundance of heal"... well great... but we don't need CureIII spam... so what's the point?