Starting stats I went with cha, just because it is supposed to help mez, not sure if it actually does, but like was already said, there is no set stats that make bards awesome.
In groups I put in instrument only when needed really. IE need resists, pop in drum and sing resists, no healer? regen with lute in. drum for selo's in larger zones and such. On general twist i have weapons in though, but i've not done full blown parses and breakdowns of things in p99, taking it much easier than I have on live.
As far as twinking, get Lute of the Gypsy Princess/mistmoore battle drums then get yourself some lambent or something else cheap and start kiting. Honestly no reason to group between 15 and 50 except if you just feel like it. AE kiting will be faster. Even after 50 (up to 54 atm and soloing is still far better).
So as far as twinking goes, spend what you want on it like twinking any melee. If you play it in groups you will play it like a melee, so haste item would be nice, more gear nice. As far as weapons If you have like 2k drop it on sonachie's partisan, then for secondary I'd pick up a sainy's singing dagger/sainy's claw, if you don't have 2k just try to find sainy's peices they are like 200-400ish it seems.
I'm lvl 54 wearing some bronze still, I'm sure i could level just about as fast nekkid, perhaps even faster as i woudln't have to CR (just hit bank to pick up backup instruments).
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