I went with Warden

The hots are awesome. I'm not sure if they will be potent enough in PvP, but we'll see. Only lvl 8 atm.

I am shelving the bards for 1 reason - Cadence is Channelled and only 20m range.

I found a hard counter to 5x Bards in my recent barriage of WFs - Saboteur and whatever other class can AE Snare.

Ground targetted AE snare should be removed. Why should 1 person be able t o prevent the forward momentum of entire groups, and especially being able to do this repeatedly.

Anyways, my group would get AE Snared, and then the 30m DPS would cast at range and back up while I crawled towards them. Bards can't heal themselves if they can get within 20m of something. The groups I fought against were pretty smart. Running away wouldn't do much good, as they had the fang.