The Bard songs look incredibly boring and unimaginative. I'd much rather they had cds and limited durations but be more powerful and varied.

For example, how about a song that lowers the GCD for burst phases? Or a song that slowly restores health? What about one that lowers allies' cds by 1 sec while active? Or Protect/Shell songs that you swap between for different phases or encounters? Unless running out of Mana/TP is a huge problem at the level cap, I don't see Bard songs being in high demand.

There's also a glaring design error in their range being 20y while bow skills are 25y. So not only will I have to move in closer just to debuff bosses, but it also necessitates raids to clump up together to maximize a song's benefits. Which will be awesome fun on bosses that do massive AOE attacks, like the video they just showed off of Titan.

Unless a fight is like 20 minutes long, who is even going to notice they are grouped with a Bard?

Oh well, just give us harps.