Always nice to see discussion about bards
I had too much time and read the last posts to this channel.
One or two good ideas I saw while reading actually.
Perhaps even worth looking into so hear me out and lets talk
about bards more.

First of all Id say this is one of oldest guilds in game,
as such I bet old players still playing this guild of jesters
could appreciate bit of something for bards.

In generally speaking I think we would like to see bardic
might affect our spells more noticeably.

And for example pathfinder could actually give out destinations
bit more earlier. (not that it would matter for me with my might)
There was some old conversation about pathfinder when
continents came around.. I think the timeline of changes its been
through has been something like this..

new continents come to play -> pathfinder wont work
-> gets fixed (and I think for while it worked over continents)
-> wanderers come into play and pathfinder was tuned to work only
in continents (also I think teleport with/without error was tuned
to work only in continent area.. and it was later on tuned that
'teleport' takes home overcontinents, no change was seen to
pathfinder tho... !??)

And here we are.. perhaps it is actually worth looked into again?
Would like to see this spell turn into over continent working with
good bardic reputation for example. After all It's just few
locations. It's not like comparable to navs or the effect you
could gain with wanderers in game.

There was also exelent idea about soothing sounds involving aoh
Since aura of hate can lasts ~20min after cast.. I bet many of you
fellow players have had to more or less this time before able to
go chest for example. To remove abuse changes it could cast with
diffrent syntax that does not go along with KBHing
for example 'cast soothing sounds at party'
(It could be something you could gain along bard reputation too)

Anyway those was just few things I noticed that would not significantly
change bards but certainly would improve playability in my opinion.
Just Ideas anyway, would be nice to see more ideas around here.