Bard feeling useless after 1 round of combat PF1e
Does anyone have any advice on how to keep my level 4 bard useful in combat after setting up inspire courage? At the moment, I usually either cast some healing using a CLW wand (which is great and no problem there, when our frontliners need healing) or I shoot my crossbow.
Even with precise shot and point blank shot, I am only dealing 1d6+2 dmg (not 1d8 as playing a gnome) for 3-8dmg. Meanwhile, our 3 melee characters are each dealing 20 points of damage most turns (not a max of 20, usually 20 plus with multi attacks and bonuses), so the crossbow just feels a bit redundant (not least because I miss half of the time against the big AC enemies). I don't even get excited for crits because it will still often be half of the other party members' regular damage outputs haha
Healing with the CLW wand is also important of course, but is usually not needed until we get a few rounds in - our frontliners have ACs of 22-25 after buffs, so attacks against them miss more often than not.
I use spells of course, but with limited slots and regular dungeon crawls and multiple combats in one day, I try to be conservative with them.
Is there anything I could be doing differently? My DM allows retraining, so I could move the build around/take different feats. Or is this just the way of the bard (which might make sense given he is by far the strongest in most out of combat skill checks). Thanks in advance!
Edit: to clarify, I am not necessarily asking how to increase my damage (though that is welcome). I am asking how to be more 'efficient' at whatever it is I do. This is my first PF campaign, so I am just slightly worried that my build is not working.