Some of the bard skills have like a 2+ second activation time and some of them have 10+ second activation time. This is a huge drastic difference. Any chance those 10+ second activation time skills could be reduced to something much much less painful to watch on your screen like 5 seconds or so?...
The bard skills are massively powerful. I don't see them lowering the cast time unless they eventually implement the "instrument out" thing.
Some of the bard song cast times where faster in the past, they actually 'nerfed' it, making some cast times longer . Like for example Savage Sonata used to be cast 'or sung' faster than currently, mostly beceause barding is so crazy strong allready, even with longer cast/'sing' times