Question about Bards and buff cooldown usage/practice

[LunarEmerald]

As soon as the boss fight begins and the tank has started hitting the enemy, I throw quelling strikes up along with every single buff and go all out. By the time, the abilities are off cooldown, the boss is down to 20% and ready to be finished off with them again.

I rarely use buffs for trash. It's a lot easier to pull aggro by accident with them.

To clarify

I open up with straight shot then put up my dots then do quelling strikes then apply all my buffs. From there, it's my normal rotation.

[aycheff]

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Basically what I do as well, though in coil and such the bosses are really down to 20% at this point. I also feel its best to use the CDs when they come off CD and reapply dots as go. I try to reapply with as many cooldowns applied to those DOTs as possible. For instance, if I see blood for blood coming off cooldown ill go ahead and apply new dots with blood for blood on it. I pay attention to see if any other cooldowns will also be up as long with blood for blood still rolling. If I am able to apply Veno/Windbite with the already use B4B and the buffs that come off cooldown, I will, else I'll wait for the other ones to come off CD or close enough to where I can apply both. Luckly, B4B, RS, and monk buff are all similar recast