I tried it with a high elf. If you can't do it real early, you almost end up having to wait til at a minimum 25 when you get enhanced damage. And by then mage kills won't just be a one or two rounder. Basically you end up having to get lucky if you want to get one early.

If you're not willing to do anything cheap, like betray a groupmate, it is a real pain, especially for elf/wood elf since they have such high exp pen. Trip and second attack with no enhanced damage and crappy hp, yeah, not easy to get a kill early a lot of times. You basically have to pray for a high damage piercing dissonance I would think.

I remember my high elf bard became an applicant 47. I got a kill using grand nocturne. Borkahd laughed at me, think I was the oldest app he had ever seen.

Only saving thing is bards are alright without village powers cause they have songs that prep them and healing.

Still a pain though :)