Help, how do I BRD?

[Rawrz]

Bard is about minimalizing loss. Take each potency of each ability and divide it by its cool down. Take Bloodletter/Rain as a face value of potency/3 (server tick.) when your Dots are up. Consider Empyreal Arrow an ability. Use that as a road map for understanding which abilities you press in which order.

Minimize clipping your GCD.

On expert, turn off WM during the pull. Instead, straight shot and multi dot. This will generate a bunch of free aoe from rain of death procs, while keeping up with your party. When the tank stops, but back WM and go ham with a bunch of those free procs.

Feint if you have to move like in Sophia EX during tilts. The DPS is about the same as heavy shot outside of WM, but blood letter/ others will still be buffed.

Use repelling shot and use it to your mobility advantage. Don't let it be wasted. Think dodging Aero III in sophia EX, as an example.

Foe Requiem, just before a boss becomes vulnerable and mages ballad when it becomes invulnerable, if your healers have less MP than ideal.

Just a few tips. I'm serious though. Do that math for potency/CD. Don't look it up. You'll understand it better.