With a standard 3 song twist (cantata/nivs/mcvaxius)
Pre-epic Weapons (12-15 melee dps)
19 hp per tick to all
12 mana per tick to all
31 str
22 attack
8 dmg shield
+ a 4th song of your choice
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With instruments:
46hp a tick to all
12 mana a tick to all
68 str
44 attack
17 dmg shield
Plus whatever 4th song you want to include 10% stacking haste (requires instrument), occlusion debuff on standby (requires instrument), mezzes that last an extra tick (bonus with wind use).
Many options for the 4th slot either require instrument (stacking haste + attack 60) or likewise get big buffs.
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I don稚 think any sane group would opt for the bard to swing his or her weapons for that leet 12-15 melee dps. The alternative more than doubles the real power a bard brings to the group. 27 extra regen? That痴 nearly 2 extra fungis to everyone which keeps things rolling smoothly. If the group did need the bard to dps ... well with instruments you can stack 50 dps easily with chants; up to 74 if you toss in the pbaoe dots.
Bards are mobile armored casters with lots of utility and buffing potential. Bards are not melee dps. Once epic is in the equation everything changes, but even then it痴 not the bards melee dps that matters; it痴 the proc on epic paired with a 180% mod to all songs sung seamlessly (vs 210-260% mod with a real instrument). Even then, the talented epic bard I grouped with over the weekend in DN was barely breaking 20dps most fights.
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