What is the point of a bard?

[Tecmos Deception]

Originally Posted by Getsmurfed [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

So it was pretty stupid to roll a bard as a main, it'd make a good alt for utility is pretty much what I'm catching.

I didn't mean to give you that impression.

I dunno. I guess I'm bad at explaining it.

Bards can do all kinds of stuff (melee, cc, mana, regen, haste, slow, pull, freaking damage shields and runes and dispels and resists, tons of stuff), but at the same time the things they're best at are incredibly specialized (stacking attack songs in melee group, stacking mana songs in caster groups, stacking resist songs on AE bosses).

None of the specialized things really have a place in a normal group because you very rarely have 4-5 casters who are in desperate need of mana such that ALL you do is twist mana songs, and you very rarely have 4-5 melee such that it is the best use of your time to sing attack songs, and normal mobs aren't so hard to resist (or so important to resist) that you need to spend your time making sure resist songs are up and never dropping. In a raid, even just a 3- or 4-group raid, the odds are pretty good that you can be doing one of these things though.