Pretty good point I hadn't though about yet... I think it is so much
clicking around that I miss most of the fun from fighting scenarios and the
other players moves and all... It surely takes a lot of attention for us to
keep twisting songs, we could use all that attention helping tanks to
protect casters or anything else...

Ericka, the sexy one...

>The amount of RL finger twiddling that bards do to make their abilities work
>is so far above that required by any other class, we might as well be
>playing a different game. I had a friend over last week who plays fairly
>regularly with me, he's the ranger from the test actually although his
>primary is now a druid. When he saw the constant button manipulation
>required by bards during combat he was stunned. He had always agreed we
>were a little underpowered, but felt all melee classes were. When he saw
>what we have to do to make our abilities function he though that anyone who
>had to go through all that ought to see some benefit from it that was more
>significant than we do. He said he would rather just have mana than go
>through all that constant finger waggling.
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