Bards are fun. They save you having your mage do the demeaning task of memorizing the identify spell a million times over the course of the game or paying 100 gold per item to find what they do. Thing is though, is that Bards, although they can cast the same spells as a Mage, they get fewer slots and take longer to gain access to higher levels compared to Mages. The bonus to me though is that I can use a larger variety of physical weapons. Plus I wanted to go through the whole game and expansion without a full blown mage for the fun of it.
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