It wasn't until I got.....an abacus.....( xD ) that I realised how terribad my bards dps was. Was barely pulling 200 at i90 while a friend was doing 270. After a lot of close inspection and reflection I realised I was letting dots fall off, ending bloodletter animations way too early due to macro spam, and further, I realised my buff uptime was crap. Buff uptime, good Bloodletter usage and dot uptime are top of the list of important bard priorities.

Do I wish someone had told me this before I realised a few months after dinging 50? yes.But no, I don't feel it's peoples jobs to do this, and dps should eventually get to the stage of the game where they start to look very critically at their dps, get an.....abacus......and seek every possible way to improve it.