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Originally Posted by Zuranthium
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Neither of those numbers feel like a melee archetype. Bard is obviously "more melee" than a caster but nobody plays them because of their pure melee capability, and it would be misleading when a new player asks "I want to play a melee character, which one would I like most" to ever tell them to play a Bard. People play melee either because they want to be a tank or because they want to see big damage happening when they swing their weapons. Those are not things Bards excel at. You need to twist songs every 3 seconds to excel as a Bard, which are things that can be interrupted when getting hit, the same as spells. Bards are more caster than they are melee.
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i dont understand why others keep choosing a semantical argument about a rock solid fact like this.
Melee characters are characters that rely primarily on their auto attack to be effective in combat.
Bards clearly were not designed to, as evidenced by lack of the most crucial melee skill: Double Attack
There are no "official" class categories in Everquest. *MOST* gear is more typically split into type (Plate, Leather, Chain, Cloth)
And everyone in this thread suggesting to someone (OP) who stated they want a break from their druid to play a melee , and then suggesting charming or swarming on a bard is missing the mark by a mile.
What most people want to play when they express such feeelings is to play something uber simple like a monk, warrior or rogue - that dont require buying spells / songs, dont require any casting in combat - and rely more simply on auto attack and not much else.
Ranger, Paladin, Shadowknight could be classified as melee (even though they are colloquially known as "Hybrid") because they generate most of their offensive output through MELEE COMBAT.
A SWARMING OR CHARMING BARD IS NOT USING MELEE COMBAT