In regard to this, it's ranting time. Why is this crap STILL in place?
Either give it to ALL ranged classes, or remove it entirely. As it stands, this crap makes it literally impossible to be competitive at all as a bard..

No problem when playing against clueless PvE players, but when it goes against actually decent PvPers (as rare as they are, they do exist), this mechanic is just plain retarded.