>You are using it to avoid attacking via melee. You are not
>avoiding being attacked via melee. That's the distinction I'm
>trying to make, and why I think it's really stupid that our
>defensive equipment and skills cap at just slightly higher
>than a cleric's.

oh that, *laughs* yeah, I can see that.But we do have the mass lull and we
can slow attacks on the whole pull, we have similar effects, we just can't
use them solo. When grouping I count on my warrior to act as my defensive
mechanism, and she is great at it.
I understand it could be *different*, I am just not sold on that it would be
*better* (from a game balance perspective) to not have bard-survival one of
the main focus' of my group, just like pulling mobs off the cleric after a
heal or pulling mobs off the Wizard after a burn.

Tszaaz E'Taurguin