bards and their ...

[LunarEmerald]

Often times dps is a higher priority. The most difficult fights are hard dps checks.

There's a time and place for singing (foe excluded) but foe is a different beast altogether. You have to carefully choose and plan when to use it to make the most out of it. It takes several minutes for your MP to recover.

Even sometimes when the healer is under 30% MP, mage's ballad is not always the best idea. Sometimes you really need to push the dps.

Bard is a dps first and support second. And no, bard's dps is not tiny. They may do low numbers but they do a lot of them and have so many freaking cooldowns. Barrage + blood for blood + raging strikes + hawk's eye + internal release + straight shot deals crazy dps.