so given all these things, what are you left with? if you happen to end
up in a tank group
(you will almost never be put in the pull group due to bard song random
aggro bugs) then
you could play level 1 song and heal and damage shield if you really
wanted to, but i would
suggest parking yourself next to the cleric and singing mana song while
swinging weapons.
if you are in a caster group then there is not much point to singing
anything but mana song,
heh.

- Now I find this funny. You recomend that as a bard use weapons. And
yet just yesterday someone went on about how the "battle bard" is not a
great idea.... *HURM*

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