Quote Originally Posted by pandabearcat View Post
Um, if bards have less dps, they will be MORE inclined to mana song because the raid DPS loss is lower.

Now, if they baked that into the song instead, then yes, they would be less inclined to manasong if it turns out it reduces damage by 30% instead of 20%.
It doesn't work that way - we pop mage ballad when healers need it for as long as they need it, assuming that we have mana to do so obviously. It's not something we are inclined or not inclined to do, it's something we simply have to do when needed.