Bard or Ranger for a 4 man group?

[MikeXG]

Man, it is great to be back on the p99 servers. My friends and I took a break for about a year and a half and are just coming back this week. We decided to make a 4 person group. So far we have a druid healer, an enchanter, and either a pally tank or maybe a monk tank (my friend is looking into the logistics of how viable a monk tank is) and then my character. I am torn between, you guessed it, a Bard or a Ranger. I already have a 19 bard and 10 ranger so I would use one of them. I just cant decide which compliments the group more. We will need DPS so I am leaning towards ranger, however we already have a druid so some spell overlap there (not the end of the world though) BUT if the tank decides to go Monk (again not sure how viable that is) that would bring the group DPS up a decent amount, and maybe bard would be more beneficial at that point? Some other deciding factors for me are, I dont have a lot of time to play and whatever character I pick for this 4 man group I would only play within this 4 man group. Most likely 1 session a week for several hours. In my spare time I still would like to hop on and play here and there, part of me wants the bard for that solo time 1, because they can solo kite really well and 2, they can get groups fairly easily. If I play the bard in the 4 man group, I would not want to solo with the ranger so I would most likely keep playing my rogue, although they suck at soloing also....

I guess I am just super overwhelmed with the good memories of everquest. I played live since launch all the way up to POP and whatever Xpac came after that.

Anyway, any advice, insight, suggestions are appreciated (and any info on my friend monk tanking?)

Thanks

-MXG