As Elf Bard (3xL+97Disco), 180 mana, with Meditation 100, Focus 0, MR 0, you can run Peacemaking masteries perm til interrupt.
You can only run Invigorate on Provocation masteries perm. Inspire+Invigorate will not play indefinitely. (Needs Focus/MR to be able.)
Discordance Masteries are a big mana sink. I had to add 100 Focus and 5MR to feel comfortable playing those in a DPS manner and still, it’s way slow deeps: around 50~65 dmg per tick to a dragon using cold, disco, slayer harp.
Now on Navrey, if I drop Focus for EI and do fire, disco, slayer, two EVs and some slayer Fireballs, I can easily top 250+, depending on Trib procs, so that’s super fun.(Mana-dump tho and requires Med to restart.) This lasts approx. 30 sec til mana zero.
Although my tamer mage can drop 350 FS with Ai’s 150-200, auto-attack 50--100, hits from Cu.
Thus lasts for 40 secs~.
So, bard does pretty good deeps for a support class. :]