Need help deciding what to play

[Caridry]

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

The attack speed is matched by any melee wearing a decent haste item buffed with enchanter haste.

The general benefit of the bard buffing songs amplifies the potency of the melee classes that have double attack more than it does the bard itself, just due to the nature of double attack. Thus the "support" moniker. If you're referring to the bard self buffing songs, haste still caps at 100% regardless. As such, as said above wearing a good haste item and getting a haste spell or song buff will put you at or near that cap. Adding +str to self from the song does not compete with double attack either and becomes fairly negligible as gear increases and people cap their str anyway.

That isn't to say that bards can't or shouldn't be doing damage, but they are not top end damage dealers on single targets as parses will show pretty easily.

quite the interesting converstion we have here =), what about the addition of DD's and Dots from the bard? does that not at least bring them close to the standards of double attack?