I was nr 1 bard on magelo on live for a while, wouldn't roll a bard on p1999
soloing on p1999 is a lot worse then on live and not classic at all, the two biggest methods don't work
- swarm kite was nerfed
- the "pull 5 mobs on same faction, charm 1 and let it get beat down by the other 4, break charm at 5% and chant mob down" method doesn't work on p1999 either, as the pet generates too little aggro to draw the attention of the npc's it isn't attacking, even if you used prox agro to gather them up
bards scale badly with gear
- the gear available in this era for bards is weak. It doesn't matter how much ntov gear you stack on a bard, its never going to come close to being a decent tank or respectable melee dps. Epic contributes to this issue, since you want the focus effect but at high end velious you don't want the bad ratio.
No luclin also means no fading memories, which means no way to clear agro during a pull, which will always make monks the preferred class in high end settings.
end-game PoP I started working on soloing trakanon, think I didn't manage until after GoD launch but its been a long time .. imagine a lvl 65 bard (no mercenary or fancy potions) soloing trakanon, compare that to the solo power of a 60 bard here .. kind of depressing
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tl;dr: bards suck on p1999 and there isn't much classic about it