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Originally Posted by yuioplok
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Yes, and being a Bard sounds like it's wrist raping.
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It depends on what you do with a bard. If you're just grouping or doing simple single-target soloing, it's not bad if you use macros. You can make a macro (a clickable or hotkeyable button) that stops your current song and starts another one, which basically halves the number of clicks or button presses you need to do. At that point you need to press a button every time a song finishes, i.e. once every few seconds, which is not horrible.
On the other hand, if you want to take down entire zones at once, that can be pretty hard on the wrist. Not quite as much when you get to level 18 and acquire a somewhat higher-range DoT song to use.
For "bossing", there are a few different things that happen. First, when you're leveling, there are named ("boss") monsters that you'll encounter that are tougher and have better loot than their surrounding monsters. You will generally be taking these down in the context of an EXP group, though many people get to a high level and then specifically target certain named monsters that drop very valuable loot, who they can easily kill solo. These monsters don't give any more EXP than any other monster of the same level and don't tend to be all that much stronger (at most, they're generally just a different class than the standard warrior enemy, and higher-level than the surrounding monsters); their main value is better loot.
Second, there are raids, where you take down dragons or the avatars of gods. This requires a large number of people working together, and each person is generally doing just one or two things; raids are actually often somewhat boring compared to grouping, because the presence of so many people means that each person's role is greatly simplified (although more precision is often necessary in fulfilling that simplified role). Several of the biggest raid bosses that drop the best loot are in extremely high demand on this server, with many different guilds able to kill them, so what happens is that people will basically sit at their spawn points waiting for them to spawn, then once they do, amass as many people as they can in their guild to get online immediately (via text message, generally). Raid bosses are somewhat more complicated than typical monsters, but fighting them is not in general all that complicated. There is also no limit to how many people you can throw at a raid boss, so if you happen to have a guild that can log in 100 people on short notice to kill a raid boss, then you can take it down with minimal effort.