Spyder you still arent understanding what I am saying. Bards as a class by themselves are not the BEST DPS or BEST mitigation. What they do, is allow the group to have the MAXIMUM possible DPS combination. If you have a warrior (or knight) tank, then you will need a second slot filled by slow / haste / cc which again lowers DPS by a significatn amount.
I could tank Kael arena at 58 in thurg gear. Tanking isnt that hard. If you have somewhat decent gear and not leather, KC is a joke to tank in the setup Ive given since mobs die so fast. I even once had a group of me, a monk, and 2 rogues. We would pull mobs into RCY, and I could fear / snare them and the mob would die before getting to the exit door of RCY (roughly 20-30sec kill time). Again, the point of a min/max xp group isnt safety. Its killing speed. With 4 rogues, mobs die so fast you barely take damage. The group composition isnt to tank a mob for ages without taking damage. Its maxed out DPS which means more xp, less damage taken.
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