Bards are very good for this sort of thing. They're not heavily gear dependant, instruments are easy to find, people want them in their groups, and they are interesting. They can sing while resting, they can tank to some extent, they can lag, and they can put out a fair amount of damage. Most of their songs are area or group affect, so you have to be careful in that respect. Basically, you'll play support, and get dragged around, but you'll be a good fighter in a cinch. For PK, they have trip to lag, dirt kick, and roundhouse puts out good damage as well as a chance to lag. Healing, prep, and damage songs mean that the only preps you should really be concerned with as a PKer are fly and teleport. They don't have anything by the way of haste/slow/enlarge/reduce, but for starting out you shouldn't be worried about that anyway. For gear, anything you can scrounge plus a really good sword. Hang onto that sword like it's your life. In general, bards have low hit and dam, and a sword really augments that well. If you really have a choice in the matter, favor gearing for mana up until around 30, afterwards you'll want HP. I can't think of anything else right now, but yea... Bards are great.

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