The deal is you'd normally use a Bard in a missile/spells/song role away from the action so one slot goes to a Longbow or good crossbow. The Halberd is the best melee weapon a Bard can use. It's pointless using a shield because they can only use bucklers (there's an insulting rhyme in there somewhere.) Unless of course you have a Blade, in which case you may as well dual weild Bastards Swords or their ilk seeing as that's the whole point of a Blade.
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