Melee vs instrument for bard

[brecon]

A bard will never, in practice, run those dots in a group situation bc the highest damage dot is an AOE that'll ruin CC..and it includes a snare so it will probably pull aggro off the tank. I think what he is describing is more for solo fear kiting scenarios or trash killing.

Also I doubt you could keep 5 dots up without losing them to server ticks, even 4 sometimes has one drop off...but it could be my connection I suppose.