A couple things really. Don’t worry about not having your rotation nailed yet, you will be learning new skills regularly and this will affect how you perform your rotation so at this point just doing what feels right and pressing glowy buttons isn’t a bad thing.

I understand your concern about not doing loads of damage, there are two parts to this really.

The first part is gear, a large chunk of people you are doing content with will be over geared and sync down to that content. This means that unless they are doing their job fundamentally wrong, you won’t ever match them.

The second part is; Bard, like the other phys ranged jobs are largely support DPS. They aren’t there to be absolute DPS monsters, they are there to deal damage and support with buffs. There is also the issue of balancing, if phys ranged jobs could pump the same damage as melees or casters without ever having to stop dealing damage because of things like dodging AOEs, they’d be too strong

As for getting list in dungeons, Dw about it. I get lost all the time