Allelujah said:
we do bard swaps for boss really. most the time dd /nin due to aoe moves.
initial entering einherjar is kind of a pain as well.
AOE moves can be painful but so can the time it takes to cast Utsusemi: Ichi and Ni over and over. Especially if the DDs are getting interrupted, those are precious seconds you're losing because you're trying to get shadows up. And with /SAM or /WAR, you're going to be killing so much faster so the over all dmg you take from a mob is going to be less because they're going to be alive less. So it's kind of a toss up.
And try doing BRD rotations the entire time. Having minuet/mad/march on the entire time and you'll notice a difference as well. Kind of goes hand and hand with the /WAR and /SAM. All those songs plus a SJ that gives more potential in TP and WS'ing and overall dmg... Mobs drop like flies. We've been able to get to the T3 NM with 13 minutes to spare before. That was a good run.