I met another 5-boxer on Lotham last night, with the main MsWrathy, and alts MsXXXX.

Hope they don't mind me dropping their name

He was playing some sort of Cleric class.

I tried 5 bards. The heal from Cadence x5 is completely OP at lower levels. MsWrathy informed me it tapers off and loses viability at higher levels, as he/she also tried Bards.

MsWrathy mentioned trying 8 points in Bard (I'm thinking 10 in at least 1 to get run speed buff) for Cadence Heal and the rest in Marksmen for the Ranged damage. We'll see.

Someone mentioned Bard abilities are magic and scale with Spell Power. This makes is difficult to effectively combine bard abilities with other Soul abilities, as I have yet to see any leather gear with spell power.