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Old 07-28-2010, 04:15 PM
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I'm actually a little surprised people didn't mention more about bards. The duo I'm currently slotted up with is a druid/bard, and the only real limiting factor is that if we're indoors, it switches from kiting several mobs at once to simply root rotting with me standing nearby blasting the eardrums out of it.

Slow, better-than-SoW, healing (both over time, and instant), mana regen, resists for those pesky casters, stuns or mez for interrupting casting, pulling ability...

While they may not be the 'best' at any one thing, they do everything pretty damned well. Following around a druid whose quad-kiting to chant them to death? Can't get much more interesting or fun than that.

While many of you have brought up many good points about the mage, they lack in one thing : the oh-shit button. Yes, mages chaining their pets can do beastly dps, and can solo or duo a great many things, but when put on scale with a competent shaman all by his lonesome, he has far more survivability, utility, flexibility, and 'padding' for when things go south due to an add, poor timing, lag, or whathaveyou. Put a shaman with something like an SK, a monk, or the like, and you're talking about someone who literally has zero downtime, and thus, will far outclass a mage who is limited by his manabar, and whether or not he has clarity, or decides to chip away his own padding by mod-rodding.

As both bard and rogue, I've duo'd with a shaman for many years, with one of the best, knowledgeable ones on my server, and he could do shit that mages could never come close to.
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