Bards actually do make decent tanks even 46-60 if their gear is up to snuff. They suffer from lower hps and lower avoidant defensive skill caps much like rangers, but they do have high skill caps on defense skill and can wear plate. The final melee balancing patch will see some further improvement with higher avoidant defensive skill caps.
+holds aggro very well
+plate armor
+high defense skill cap
+early slows on incoming
-low hps compared to real tanks
-lower end avoidant defensive skill caps
They’re decent overall. Very capable tanks on routine/easy content, but their weaknesses become more obvious on hard group content (ie seb shrooms/juggs, lower velks dog/BM, sirens grotto, deep DN Paebala, Kael arena, etc).
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