> Once you get high enough to charm - that IS something
> a bard can do, charm the mob - the caster wastes his
> manna, mob goes uncharmed, proceed to kill.

By Charm are you talking about the level 15 song? I've had to resort to
using that song before when someone really got on my nerves to clear the
damage list and then start bellowing and hitting it as hard as I can hoping
to finish it off first. As a Bard (15th song) it's the only way I know of to
keep something I'm fighting from being stolen. And when you'd much rather be
playing songs to improve your speed or AC or something, that's a real
bummer.