In recent days I have found my self in a series of groups with different bards.
Sad to say, they are the worst bunch of Bards I have ever come across.
Ranging from insisting on meleeing and not singing anything, typically just singing one song, haste usually, to insisting on being mezzer even when there is a Chanter sitting around twiddling her thumbs. The Chanter ended up nuking to find some thing to do in fact.
The Bards that sing only one song are a puzzle, clearly they know something about their class as they are at least singing something (as opposed to the ones that don't sing at all), but surely the fun/challenge of Bardsdome is to twist as many usefull songs as you can?
Especialy when you are in a group packed with casters, wouldn't you at least drop in mana song along with haste once in a while? Huh?
Then the Bard that insists on mezzing, why would she mez the mob and then stand there staring at the mob doing nothing else for the duration of the encounter? Is mezz sooo difficult for Bards that they can do nothing else while mezzing?
If so, wouldn't it be better to let the Chanter mez after all? Seeing that the Chanter can mez multiple mobs with one hand behind his/her back and juggling three balls at the same time!
Are all Bard damage songs AoE? Maybe they have only ever played in LDoN and so are scared of damage songs?
But what about Bard dispell songs? Group buffs, Mana song, Damage Shield? Mana song, etc etc?