Changes to Bard I'd like to see in 5.1/overall

[Akiudo]

The thing is, abilities that only serve to be pressed for potency tend to be the ones that go missing at the next expansion. You'd get the same effect by just increasing the initial hit of all GCD actions by like 10.

the point is it simply wouldn't work. assume a normal fight, tank pulls, first dot, second dot, sidewinder, 30~ seconds later first iron jaws, 30~ seconds later second iron jaws, sidewinder gets ready in between 5 seconds and exactly now, you either press sidewinder and refresh your dots at 27+ seconds left or you hold it for 20+ seconds so it can effectively refresh your dots as you will have to use iron jaws 2 times before sidewinder gets ready even if you play perfectly as you can hardly bet on server ticks allowing you to refresh the dots after they actually fell of twice in a row, which would be the only way to get enough leeway so you can refresh them with a skill that actually gets ready the second they would fall of the second time in a literally perfect scenario.