Personally, I LOVE unbalanced groups. When I'm in a group with cleric, ench,
shaman, two tanks, I hate it. It's safe, but boring. Melee heavy groups, you have
huge melee buff songs against singles, charm for 2 or 3 MOB pulls, fear and Selo's
for more. hehe. Caster heavy groups, you're a little young, but when you get mana
song, those rock. Pets tank, you debuff/clarity. Or you tank, they nuke. They'll
all love it. Pre-32 it's a little tougher, yes.

Kenross Cantoforjado, 51 songs, Innoruuk

> I'm not sure we are third rate at everything, but things like the lullaby
> nerf are distressing. I've gotten left out of two groups in the last week
> because they "needed" an enchanter for crowd control. They were both 4 tank
> groups so clarity wasn't really an issue. They said, and I believe them,
> that if my crowd control songs weren't broken they would have rather had me
> in the group since I could help them out with downtime (they had no healers
> other than a ranger).
>
> I play a bard primarily for RP reasons, but I think the bard class is a good
> one. If they would fix our broken or useless songs we would be fine. Most
> of the weakness I perceive in the bard class is not because of Verant's
> vision of a bard. It is mostly because Verant has made melee classes so
> much less common than casting ones through some of their decisions. EQ is
> definitely a caster's game powerwise. Melee characters might get all the
> neat toys, but caster's get all the things that make playing easier. If I
> played with less casual players maybe it wouldn't be as much of an issue.
> Every time I get in a melee heavy group we have a great time and I can
> contribut enormously. In a caster heavy group all the weaknesses of the
> bard class come to the forefront, and if there's an enchanter present I feel
> pretty useless. Unfortunately caster heavy groups seem to outnumber tank
> heavy ones by about 5-1 at least.
>
> Kit