So our group raided last night and I'm definitely pulling more DPS than Monday, by 150-250+.

I'm more comfortable stance dancing now which is more preferable, since at 1100+ Crit, my bloodletter procs quite often and in WM I tend to loose out on some free procs during the casting. During times when I can just turret, my DPS is acceptable, it's during movement that hurts since weaving in and out of WM is harder to pull off and I rely on Feint/procs a lot more.

While learning how to play Bard this way is truly trial by fire, I still don't honestly see the need for Bard or Machinist, as my raid leader seems to vehemently think. My SMN is still a lot more geared (near ilvl230 now) and I still have a lot more raid experience on it and Res during combat is easier/less taxing for me to do than our healers (whom are NOT running out of MP issues btw). If anything I should lvl MCH and run that over Bard, since they seem to have a better raid toolset than Bard does for A6S (ranged slow, root, and stun, plus a disable which the bard doesn't have).

Meh. At the very least I'm making myself more versatile I guess?