Played on fennin, rallos and the test server.
And there are plenty of places that you would have for sure seen bards swarm kiting if it was a thing. Crocs/orcs in oasis? Spiders/aviaks/gnolls/wisps/random furry shit in the karanas? Maybe mammoths all over everfrost? I'm sure the bard experts on p99 could point out more in vanilla EQ. And I'm not sure what hitting a wall at 25 has to do with anything? The reality is bards would have still be seen swarm kiting and it would have been a well known "thing" if it was happening. People would have seen them skyrocketing through levels on new servers, too, and saying "hey, wtf is up with this guy leveling so fast" even if in certain level ranges they may slow down. You'd probably also see posts of people pissed ff about bards stealing all the mobs to kite them, just like on p99.
And bards had an incredibly easy time getting groups. Enchanters/bards were rare but every group wanted mana faster. Even if you were a complete anti-social moron and terrible at the game you'd find a group that would happily let you drool in the corner playing the mana song.
People rarely kited just 3-4 mobs even well after release because the the internet was shit, peoples computers were shit, the servers were shit, and most people didn't know shit. So it's not surprising you have a hard time finding contemporary information about it.
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