Buff Bards or Riot

[Lemuria]

With some testing, I found that Wanderer's Minuet actually resulted in a net LOSS of damage at level 52. Sure, you get that fancy 20% bonus on weaponskills, but you're losing auto attacks. My AA hits for about 50% of my Heavy shot / Bloodletter damage. WM only adds less than half that value to each attack and the delay between auto-attacks is basically identical to the recast times.

That being said, given that there are two skills only usable in Minuet with significantly higher potency than our other attacks, I think that's the intended balance. For my part though, given that those skills are on longer recasts I'd probably toss up WM when they're available rather than try to maintain it for the entire fight. So far it seems Bard is just trading convenience for the sake of a single skill, Sidewinder.