I don't really know where to start but I have been playing Bard since Beta and the changes are great and dps is fine. You can still do over 1k dps on most floors of Alex, go check some of the good bards in hard core raiding statics. Some Bardz I am sorry to say but need to learn how to play the job. I am not one of the best but I can easily burst at over 14k and then level out over 1000 over 4 minutes. How is this shit dps? It is great considering what we bring to the Raid. Bardz are still wanted and the "good" raid groups all have one. It's the small group out there in PF that think they are the shit and need to stop it already. We are good flow Bards...we are good.