>Sing can get ridiculous at times, and no you don't need it
>perfected by level 30... you do however, need it perfected by
>level 33 or 34 if you don't want to be a punching bag to all
>the other mid-levels.

Having PK'd with bards without it in those levels, I call #### -- and frankly, the list of players who are better than me with the bard class is not a short one.

If you'd said level 40 I might have agreed, but I can't fathom managing to hit 40 with lower sing without purposely trying to do it.