sorry.. haha, I kind of leveled back in vanilla on founders week, and haven't looked back. I leveled as pure bard.. which took forever back then I can tell you, and we did not have Tactician.
To get the most from bd for leveling doesn't take many points.
you could take a route like
http://rift.zam.com/en/stc.html?t=1M....xc.VcTz0z.-11
or similar at 30. The object is to have decent st and aoe dps, to be able to self heal a bit, and reduce any down time while leveling. A build like this offers some movement options, with warps and flash of steel (this also gets you unstuck from snares and such). There are soo many ways to go, you could even use nb, and then spend the points in 8 tact for + to non physical dmg.
for macros, sit on a dummy and find out which melee attacks do more dmg for you from the different souls, then use that in macro. add in your ranged empyrean bolt for grabbing distant mobs. make an "melee aoe button" using twin strike, rift disturbance, reprisal, then use finishers as needed. don't forget, to keep the mob with the least health as your main target for better self healing. You also can drop some cores for dps/healing. where you go from there is anybody's guess, totally up to you, starting to feel squishy? drop some more into rs or tact (up to barrier remote), want more massive aoe? put more into tact, want more st dps, drop more into your bd/nb soul.
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