of course a fighter will be a better fighter than a blade. thats why he is a fighter, and a blade is a bard. but the bard CAN cast spells, identify items, has some cool abilities, and has a bardsong that can drastically improve your characters. hell, even a first level bard song is a nice addition to a combative group. bards make good backup mages, and can pick pockets, so you dont have to put those points into your other thieves (like my main character, and elven fighter/thief). granted, i dont use him much, because i use two of my own characters. i dont like the mages or thieves in this game, aside from edwin, but he dont get along with minsc. so, i have a fighter dualed to a mage as well. otherwise, i would have HeirDalis in my party.
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Morgan Corbesant, Elven BladeSinger, Captain of the army of the Seldarine