So how would you buff bard? (Just like to hear peoples thoughts)

[Shurrikhan]

Numbers-wise? I wouldn't, at least until its rDPS falls behind DNC's a majority of the time or MCH's ever or its cDPS falls consistently behind both. (This assumes that BRD would also benefit to similar in-role variance if Rangers as a whole were buffed.)

Gameplay-wise? There's a ton I'd like to do, but for a small but decently impactful start, remove Iron Jaws and reduce the durations of Wind/Storm and Venom/Caustic to, say, 15 and 21 seconds, respectively.

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They already tried to make Bard ‘a competitive dps’. It completely fucking broke the game lol. They literally had to put a 20% personal damage reduction on every Bard song just to stop people stacking it lol.

15%, later nerfed in 3.3 to 10%. And that was mostly irrelevant to the desire to stack Bards, since the debuff was only applied to MP song (Mage's) and TP song (Army's), not their [magic-]damage song (Foe's), and they just stopped singing those songs before cycling into their burst again (snapping song duration to just before re-DoTing and/or hitting their CDs).

The nerfs that most discouraged stacking Bards were...

1. reducing Cross-class Lancer's Blood for Blood from a 20% to 10% damage bonus and Pugilist's Internal Release from 20% to 10% crit chance bonus in 2.1 --since they stacked too well with Archer's Hawk's Eye (15% primary stat bonus for, in essence, 15% more damage, for 20s per 90s) and Raging Strikes (straight 20% damage bonus for 20s per 80s) for absurd multi-DoTing damage and generally high average ppgcd--
   --and--
2. buffing and/or bug-fixing other DPS (see Demolish originally not scaling with Greased Lightning, painfully low starting DRG skill ppgcds, etc.).