Good attentive bards have always amused me. Twisting songs constantly must be like having mosquito bites all over your body and trying to keep them all scratched at any given time.
They are certainly one of the classes giving me the highest degree of EQ immersion, both to play and play with. But I always felt them being underpowered in the sense that an enc could do the same stuff (except run fast and wear fancy armor) more comfortably - and then gate home. And maybe even more importantly, bards "should" be more powerful in reward for the efforts needed to play one properly.
Above stuff aside: one of the most underestimated strenghts of the bard is their ability to tank. They are great tanks when geared/played as such.
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