All that talk about AoE padding DPS kinda goes down the drain when you consider that:
- Most of the fights that count for anything are single target (bosses).
- Ads having buffs that make you have to split them up.

Which brings us back to ranged DPS either needing more support abilities or a balancing up in the damage output department. In the case of Bards, give the proc-based nature, a third DoT would be nice, specially now that the two existing ones got unnecessarily nerfed.