Yah true. But it's a melee page. And since we don't strictly fit his
definition of "melee" perhaps his wording was wrong. I doubt that he is
totally clueless about bards. His understanding that we aren't exactly gods
at melee is fairly indicative that he at least has passing knowledge about
how a bard works.
> Perhaps I should have added a ;) at the end of my comment to indicate
> sarcasm.
>
> I'm fully aware that it's our songs that define our class and my songs are
> memorised dynamically to compliment the abilities of the group I'm in.
> Depending on the make-up of the group, I'm almost exclusively singing with
> an instrument equipped during combat, hot-swapping and twisting as
> necessary.
>
> Defining characteristic or not, at lower levels (up to the mid-teens and
> often beyond) a Bard's time is spent meleeing whilst singing. To dismiss
> Bards from melee discussion because it "doesn't define us" perhaps shows a
> lack of comprehension of a Bard's abilities and how one is played.
>