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Originally Posted by Kollins
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I'm sorry, but I'm a little offended. While you may spend 90% of your time on a raid twisting group buffs and you may be able to kite stuff to "solo" the class still has several roles to play that benefit from gear. If you are doing crowd control, you will get resists and you will draw aggro and you will get hit so you do need AC and HPs. We have bards who have timed solo kills at many levels and until endgame they almost always go faster with weapons and melee songs than they do with instrument enhanced songs, even if you count the HP regen downtime. I've played many roles in leveling groups, including enchanter, healer, nuker (DoTer) and even main tank using high aggro songs when I'm a little higher level than the rest of the group. If you have a melee heavy group and are using melee songs, you are best off adding your [arguably pathetic] melee to the mix. You also can't kite everything, so there are times where you must rely on your melee skills to quest or pharm and having good weapons, maybe a haste item, helps a lot!
Bards are about versatility. We can kite and do some crazy things without getting in close, but there are times where you just have to go in swinging and be able to survive a few hits.
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I believe what the OP is trying to say is when you're raiding, gear that will make your character .1% more powerful just isn't going to benefit your character as much as it would benefit another class who relies on stats to further their dps. In terms of CCing, yes charisma gear is a plus, but if you don't have an enchanter around then you should really invite one to your guild. Prior to velious, I twinked out a bard with over 600k in gear and the difference between being twinked and leveling a bard with raids, and being a bard that isn't twinked with raids is just not that substantial.
Same for the enchanter class, once you're capped or hardcapped on charisma and capped on int then where do you go from there? Just being an enchanter class, you all ready can solo 90% more than any other class in the game other than shaman. The only real upgrades that make any differences are click items that you can obtain. There's just a point in a character's life where it's pointless to hunt for that BiS that will barely improve your character.
This is essentially why so many people quit or make alts once they've gotten their epic done, what else out there is game changing. I mean, how many epic mages do you see on a day to day basis that aren't really just used as coth bots? Once you get epic, your pet does serious dps and you're half of a wizard that's probably on mod rod duty anyways. Once you've capped out on a character's progression you either quit or you start an alt that you can do more on.