Bard (player) skill-cap?

[Erica]

The number of blinking icons in your buff bar has nothing to do with the skill of a bard. Anyone can play 4 songs.

If you are pulling, you are most likely doing well if there is always a mob in the camp. Throw out a mana song in between pulls. You want to run away from your group the moment you are able to and find something else.

If you have a chanter in your group, try to never mez anything (unless you are going to be the main CC... in certain situations I like to be the CC even with a chanter). You will just screw them up otherwise. Only thing you might want to throw a mez at are pet breaks. Rather than mezzing non-pet mobs, best thing to do to help them is snare, since that usually gives you aggro and you can kite the mob for a moment while they mez and then it is hitting no one, to save your healer mana.

You can play mez and a few other songs to interrupt casting. There are some situations where doing just catana plus interrupting spells is the most efficient way to help your group. You can snare if it is needed where you are. There will also be certain situations (like in crypt) when you really don't need to do anything other than mana song and dps. If you want you can do around 250 a tick in dots, in addition to having catana going. But honestly a group shouldn't need your extra dps. It is ok to rest your poor little fingers sometimes, while at the ready to step it up if people need extra mana or to CC.