I saw a small difference, but you still killed both of my characters at hero with fiend more than once when I had resist mental up. You also forget to mention that you can easily dispel that prep and I think your main argument as to why bards aren't overpowered is nixed. Just my diminutive opinion though (I don't know why I bother anymore since I know it won't get changed, and I don't even care). I remember you tearing through Laernoch (storm pally) and still consistently landing sleep on him with resist mental up. Furthermore resist mental is one of the more expensive preps to keep up (and the preps ticker is pretty small..like 7 hours i think?) and well...you're pretty much impossible to kill regardless of your gear unless you make a glaring error in the fight whereas most of your opponents can choose all the right tactics and still have near no chance.

Anyway, you definitely stuck it out with Kornuel so congratz on that.