Is a bard wrong for me?

[Keebz]

Eh, most races SoW speed? Kael and Sleeper's I guess. Sev too (but who cares).

When limited to sow speed, Ranger is good if you have LoS to max range shoot something (MOTG comes to mind), but there's not a lot of those. They also get Bind Sight and can WS their train to buy 18s, which is solid.

On the other hand, bards get better run speed in VP, planes, non-sev/tal kunark targets, get bind sight, get DA, get Deftdance (like WS), get illusion spells to change size (hfl/gnome, barb is huge) and moreover can cast said illusions while mid-race to fit through/over obstacles (kael races come to mind).

Bards are solidly S tier racers. Rangers B+. A Windstriker FTE is pure hype, though.