Quote Originally Posted by Blah View Post
Like I said, I realize most completely overlook both bard and mages's preventive spells so it's easy to say "we don't need it give us X instead" but all they have to do is change things up like they've done countless times, then what?
Detail a scenario where using one of your 2-5 songs on a party to potentially resist poison, blind, paralyze, sleep, bind, silence, curse, or petrification will be more beneficial than increasing the damage against the target or providing better sustainability for the group. There's really no way of "changing things up" here. Either the effect is so strong that it warrants removal (-na, erase, meds, getting out of the aura), or the effect is so inconsequential that it has almost 0 barring on the fight (most poison and bind effects, other's are easily cured). The only way these could ever be considered "useful" is if a Brd gets another song slot specifically for a resist spell, and even then, I'd want a carol over these.