Why I recommend 5/55 rings is that they are basically good into your 50s and beyond. Yes they probably will run you 450 for the pair, but there really isn’t a better way to spend your PP than those.
You can swarm kite into your 30s so fast it’s kind of unbelievable. Gear really doesn’t matter so much, and even cheap merchant instruments are decent enough to get you through. What will make you the best bard in a group is constantly switching to the right songs for the moment, twisting the right songs, and then adding DPS. You won’t be worth a turd tanking. My bard has some pretty damn good gear and at level 36, he just had a hard time holding up to any other hybrid or melee. But as a bard, you can add regen, mana regen, haste and in desperate times AOE mez (be prepared to die from this haha).
Bard has got to be the absolute funnest class in the game because not only can you do so much, but you are so valuable to a group.
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