Bard Song Aggro
 

anyone who played a bard back in this era will remember how much aggro bard songs created

i distinctly remember having to wait until the tank in the group built aggro for a good 10-15 seconds before i could even start twisting songs

in this archived thread from 2003:
http://thedruidsgrove.org/archive/eq/t-5646.html

Bards were much better CC classes also, which helped combat the agro problems (lull pulls/aoe mez/single mez/snare/slow).

I played a bard up to 54 and never kited a single time.

You either had an enchanter or a bard in group.

On red aoe mez is useless, not sure about blue, but if their agro is going to addressed so should the CC ability imo.

Before the song agro nerf... Pulling hate off your tank during a raid? Sucked. But at least I could do some "tanking" as the only plate class in a small group of my friends.

When they nerfed bard hate, they went way too far. I remember when our dots got fleshed out a bit more in later expansions... having a full set of dots running, meleeing, in close range, and having agro taken away just because someone sneezed. We should have had a larger risk of dying from poor agro management. (Loading the mob up with dots before the tank has established agro should kill you :P)

I don't recall the AoE mez being entirely great and kept to the single target most of the time. The single target was fantastic however :D