Bard issues that needs to be addressed

[JustaBard]

First of all I want to say that this is my opinion on my observations of playing bard through 60. Feel free to add yours.

Minuet just plain sucks. Weaving oGCDs is awkward and clunky as hell. We have so many buffs and so many OGCDs that makes it a pain to weave everything. It seems forced and it is not fun at all. Iron Jaws seems rather nice, except that it refreshes your DOT's and eliminates any buff that they had, so its not really worth it since again we have so many buffs and buffed DOTs are a really nice DPS increase. Paean is useless.

With all that said, the worst is that even if we play perfectly with Minuet we almost do the same damage without it! There are numbers going around, but tis seems like its just a really small dps increase on a training dummy (10-15 dps)! So in real fights unless you don't have to move at all, which will not happen, you will probably do more damage ignoring Minuet all along.

So even ignoring all the awkwardness of being a physical caster with a million oGCDs that completely destroyed the bard gameplay our damage output still sucks. Please, either re-work the new skills or buff them else we'll have to play another class. Thanks.

[Zophar]

Iron Jaws seems rather nice, except that it refreshes your DOT's and eliminates any buff that they had, so its not really worth it since again we have so many buffs and buffed DOTs are a really nice DPS increase.

It does however, also refresh with whatever buffs you have up at the time of using iron jaw, so really, there's no difference in that department.