I'd like to see Bards lose the damage penalty for singing Paeon/Ballad.

It really sucks from a gameplay design point of view to penalize a player for trying to help their group.

The songs themselves don't add all that much to gameplay. Foes is played 90% of the time. Ballad during progression/if a fight goes bad and lots of resses go out. Paeon pretty rarely, maybe once per fight without a ninja.

There's no real reason to keep the damage penalty in place for two songs since the song you sing 90% of the time doesn't penalize you.