bards get low melee skill levels, and they get DW but not double attack. They aren't really a melee class at all. Even if you don't swarm, your ability to kill well works better a lot of other ways, such as dynamic charming, single kiting, fear kiting, etc. Later in the game 3.5x chanting with the endgame chant with an instrument is actually really good DPS, in fact higher then epic rangers people say. Bards *can* do more DPS then most folks assume, but its not via melee.
This is all before your epic though.
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