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Do you have Heart of Winter?
If not, your bard's usefulness is effectively halved. In HoW, the extra songs make the bard an essential for any party. That's not to say that a bard isn't good in regular IWD - I always kept one around for Pick Pockets and identifying - but it won't be an excellent character.
Typically, a Heart of Winter bard should just sing. Even when you're not fighting, sing (War Chant of Sith works best - Regeneration means that you don't need those pesky healing spells in your cleric's precious spell slots.) As for a regular bard, my best advice is this. Keep her in the back lines with the best bow you can give her, and let her keep all the enchanted ammunition. Armors you should be looking into include the Mail of Life or Ogien's Scale. If you can get Elven Chainmail, all the better - you'll have a powerful ranged combatant that can do some serious area-effect damage.
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