As much as my posts--in this Category, at least--tend to come across as "gimme gimme gimme" (A Man After Midni... wait, that's ABBA, never mind), I really do have tons of good things to say about where Bards are at.

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Freshly spawned:

You weave another verse into your harmony, directing the sound of your voice at a stone giant.
CS: +257 - TD: +202 + CvA: +25 + d100: +100 == +180
Warding failed!
You focus your voice on a stone giant's war mattock with perfect resonance, causing it to shatter into thousands of tiny pieces!
... 40 points of damage!
Hard blow to neck loosens head on shoulders.
Quite fatal!
The stone giant rumbles in agony as he teeters for a moment, then tumbles to the ground with a thundering crash!
The stone giant shudders and goes still.
A stone giant seems to lose an aura of confidence.
A stone giant returns to normal color.
Sing Roundtime 3 Seconds.

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Sure, I got lucky on a d100==100, so it's nice and pretty.

But you can't say anything bad about hunting +9 levels and getting a lethal shot with a 2-mana spell. I mean, it's just silly how good it is. :)

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And let's have a round of applause for Banshee's Wail/1008, making it more likely for them to be laying down dizzy with vertigo when they die, too.