Master Bards, please help me out! How can I maximize my DPS?

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I'm watching your video, this might bleed into two posts.
First thing your opener is really strange. If you're going to open with your first (cast) skill being EA, you might as well precast it which you can't do if you're hitting BL first. The main purpose of starting with EA is so you can get two casts of it during your buffs in your opener, but you flat out can't do that with such low SkS without sacrificing other potential gains. On top of that you'd be missing disembowel and TA for that barrage, which is actually pretty terrible, and prebuffing with a pot is also terrible (though, a bit understandable why you'd do that considering how you open)

You aren't clipping your dots either, in the opener you have so many buffs up it's actually a large gain to clip your dots before the buffs drop off (in a normal opener it's when they're at like 6-9 seconds). After your opener, with the exception of maybe IR because you'd have to clip pretty early twice, your next GCD after popping buffs should be IJ for two sets of buffed dots. (cont.)