How does Bard keep up with the massive damage in A2s?

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Putting up WB + VB takes forever, but it's actually optimal in terms of potency and TP spent per GCD.
Take for example wave 7, 4 jagd dolls. Quick nock is 140 TP, for 110 potency * number of mobs, 440 potency per cast for 140 TP.

Windbite, on any single target, is 330 Potency for 80 TP on top of the RoD procs. Both WB, and quick nock, take 1 gcd (1.5 second cast + 1) to use.
It might feel like it takes forever to put up both of your dots on everything, but when it comes to sustained AoE like floor 2 it's extremely efficient.

I generally avoid quick nock on every wave besides the 3rd one with hardhelm + mind + snipers + soldiers, and wave 8 which has a ton of things you can AoE down. Otherwise rotate WB/VB on the beefiest targets and spam RoD.

For wave 7, I actually just do my single target rotation for the first 2 doll that m,jst die first instead of aoeing.