Once when I mazed Murphy's group, apparently he was drunk and didn't realize what happened, and he said something along the lines of "THOSE FCKERS RAN!"

Thats the thing about bards though- effort doesn't provide any reward. They're such a shallow class that spamming damage and afflictions is the most effective strategy. There's no room for anything fancier- most of the stuff we can do is completely random. There's a reason no one sticks around in the bard guilds, even when they were capable of doing over 3k damage a hit- bards are a uninteresting class without much potential.

You need to do what I'm doing and figure out ways to fit Stealth skills and less useful Kata skills into new and exciting combat strategies.

Build a better mousetrap, know what I'm saying?