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Originally Posted by Balur
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I'm thinking of leveling a bard, but I don't want to kite my way to 60. Are bards good at solo melee combat or will I find myself feeling the need to kite at some point?
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I decided to level one of my bards without doing a single swarm kite. Grouping should be your bread and butter whenever possible. You are a good group class and things always go smoothly when you're around, whether it be from regen and mana songs, or clutch mez's and charms saving the day.
You can fit into just about any group and fill a variety of niches: pulling, mana/hp battery, haste, dot's, mez, charms, tanking until 50+, etc etc. If there isn't an enchanter or a monk around, you can fill the niche. use that to your advantage when you're lfg.
You will never be efficient with soloing, but you can duo pretty well with some classes. For instance, rogues can't solo either, but a bard can quickly pull in an outdoor zone and fear kite a mob while the rogue quickly kills it with backstabs. Good way to exp while you're waiting for people and filling groups, but you should always try to group when possible. Might be a little bit better of a strategy on red than blue, because you can be fear kiting while finding a group with the global chat channel that blue doesn't have.