They do need to change a lot of aspects of bard in 3.0, hopefully before Savage Alex. There's no reason a Warrior should be able to outDPS any "DPS" role. If SE intended on that they should just throw bard in a separate category titled "Support" and create a true archer class or something. The whole situation with oGCDs being nearly impossible at times (especially flaming arrow) is really annoying. That and the random silence glitch where you can't attack anything for awhile. They could do a number of things to buff bards and I think they already know what those things are, so just a matter of time for them to figure out the #s. You won't see anyone playing the class if it isn't fixed because right now it's quite frankly garbage. Sadly I need to stay on it for progression and can't find any relief from MCH since that's garbage too.