[Patricio]

Okay your post completely denies 2 important aspects of the bard class. First, we're supposed to be able to fill a lot of roles pretty well, and second our songs are supposed to scale up in usefulness over time.

Bitching about a level 32 song that rocked at level 32 scaling up for bards to rock at level 65 ignores the fact that bard songs are supposed to scale. Look at elemental rhythms. That song is level 9, and guess what? It scales up so it's often the resist song of choice up to level 63 (or its aoe version). Amplification itself is a level 30 song. I'm personally disappointed that there aren't more songs in the bard lineup that scale up instead of them giving us a newer version of the same old haste song every couple of levels.

On top of that bards are supposed to be able to fill multiple roles pretty well. Who cares if you're put in the mana group on a raid? How much different is that from being the resist buffer or atk/haste buffer or the person doing oos? It's not like the case of mages where mana was bar none the most efficient place to put them and it afforded unlimited mana. Except in very specific fights, you're not going to see bard resists, atk/haste, etc completely ditched so that all the bards are to just sing mana.

I haven't done any actual testing to see if this provides clerics the ability to nonstop CH, so I won't comment on that.

*edit*
On top of all that, not that most higher levels give a rats arse about the lower levels, but back in the days of raiding at that level before MGB, before most people had group versions of all their buffs, and before every cleric had a clicker, being able to put a couple of bards in a group to speed up the buff process or CR saved hours of time, so making it not stack with itself should be weighed against that.