Is there an up to date BARD Guide?

[HecatesLover]

You misunderstand me. I know if an animation gets canceled the attack still goes through. However every attack has a minimum animation time before another can be activated. So if you lead with Bloodletter you must wait that bit before you can trigger another attack. If you use Bloodletter between GCDs though you don't lose that time.

[Bardo]

When you say: "Lead with Straight Shot for the crit buff > Bloodletter when GCD is about half." -- You strongly imply you think the animation matters.
There's no reason to wait until GCD is about half.
Optimally you just jam on it to get it to fire as fast as possible.

We're in agreement that the guide doesn't follow an optimal opener, I just think the way you went about explaining it was ever so slightly misleading.

The easiest way to go about it (in my opinion) is with 4 macros.
#1

/macroicon "Straight Shot"
/ac "Straight Shot" <t>
/ac "Misery's End" <t>
/ac "Bloodletter" <t>

#2

/macroicon "Windbite"
/ac "Windbite" <t>
/ac "Misery's End" <t>
/ac "Bloodletter" <t>

#3

/macroicon "Venomous Bite"
/ac "Venomous Bite" <t>
/ac "Misery's End" <t>
/ac "Bloodletter" <t>

#4

/macroicon "Heavy Shot"
/ac "Misery's End" <t>
/ac "Bloodletter" <t>
/ac "Haymaker" <t>
/ac "Heavy Shot" <t>

Then you never have to touch Misery's End, Bloodletter, or Haymaker. You just jam on 4 buttons and prioritizing them is cake.

[McWinning]

/macroicon "Heavy Shot" <t>
/ac "Misery's End" <t>
/ac "Bloodletter" <t>
/ac "Haymaker" <t>
/ac "Heavy Shot" <t>

How do you config so "skill is not ready" "skill this etc" does not appear while macro spamming?

[Shunye]

How do you config so "skill is not ready" "skill this etc" does not appear while macro spamming?

character configuration menu-> log filters-> announcements-> error messages

[Icesight]

Just wanted to say thanks for listing these macros, seriously saved me alot of head aches!

[StringKing]

Ok so here is a question. If I level pug past the 15 levels I need to get bard can I use the higher level pug skills on the bard?

[Bardo]

Ok so here is a question. If I level pug past the 15 levels I need to get bard can I use the higher level pug skills on the bard?

List of every skill you can use with Bard
List of every skill you can use with Archer

The only other pugilist skill you can use as Bard is Mantra, and you'd have to level Pugilist all the way to 42 to pick it up (and it's incredibly weak since you won't have the enhanced mantra trait).
I think leaving your pugilist at 15 is fine. Better to spend time leveling up your lancer to 34 because both [Invigorate] and [Blood for Blood] are incredibly good for Bard.