Yes.
You do not seem to understand the meaning of "min/max" very well. It doesnt mean to kill stuff in safety, taking your time, as your group was set up to do. It means aiming towards one thing to the maximum, disregarding other factors. Is a bard the BEST damage mitigation tank? hell no. But for xp group you dont need warriors discing everything.
What the bard tank does, is allow the group as a whole to focus on kill speed, maximizing xp / time. Yes there's inherent risk, but thats part of min/max. If you want to be the best tank, you're gonna give up on some DPS. If you want max DPS, you're gonna have to give up on some survivability.
I would even say, a bard is the best part of a goup for max dps the moment it has selo's consonant chain song in your mid-20's. Go anywhere outdoors, grab some DPS group members. You can just snare kite it around while your DPS bash it. It wont lose aggro cause selo's chain is basically the best aggro in the game. You dont take any mana to use it, and no one in the group takes damage. You can keep killing as long as you have energy to be at the keyboard.
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