"Serious" Bard 6.0 predicted/suggested kit

[Cetonis]

(sorry for the spam-ness, it seemed best to break it up like this -.-')

The "serious" is to mean that I'm hoping to keep within the bounds of what SE might be willing to do, or is likely to do based on past patterns. No sense soapboxing over things that are clearly never going to happen. With any luck, half of this is predicting stuff SE is already looking at doing.

And "serious" in that - while SE would never implement a forum-posted list verbatim obviously - if theoretically all of this did happen, I think it'd be at least somewhat well-received by veterans, while also taking a lot of measures to make the job more newbie-friendly.

This is going to be very long. Proper explanations felt appropriate. It is hopefully skimmable.

Credibility: I've been playing and theorycrafting for Bard for a long time. I'm also a Bard mentor on the Balance, and in that capacity have seen lots of questions and gone over quite a few logs of Bard players looking to improve. So I have at least some knowledge of common struggle points for people learning the job.

I'm going to try to stay thin on exact details i.e. potency values or such, because for the most part they don't realllly matter compared to the general thrust of the ideas here. Plus, typing out hypothetical Muse tooltips is a great way to make people run for the hills. This is beyond long enough as it is.