Quote Originally Posted by SamRF View Post
[...] like Demoralize and Stress (perhaps silly that those effects will then deal damage but w/e).
They sure do, trust me on that.

But yeah, it seems that with Shadowbringers, SE tried to give more "bard-like" animations. At this point, apart from Bloodletter, the whole kit of bard has new animations that are shiny arrows, powered by magic. Maybe they could tweak some of the effects a bit more, but most of the work is imo going towards this anyway. I guess that for the next expac, Bard will have only "magic-looking" abilities, which isn't bad at all.