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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Riastlin" data-source="post: 5358534" data-attributes="member: 94022">The bard is great option for ranged leader.  You can go with a cunning bard and use ranged attacks through a wand or a songbow/songblade.  You get good healing (though not great) and good riders in the form of reorganizing the battlefield, granting saves, free attacks, temp HPs or extra healing, buffs and debuffs (more of the latter if I recall correctly). You can also go with the prescient bard which uses ranged weapons (thus granting an even greater range than the cunning bard).  The cool thing is that the two builds are compatible meaning you can grab a songbow and use both ranged weapon attacks and simple ranged spell attacks through your bow, allowing you to simply pick the more interesting power.  Bards are also ritual casters which is nice as well. All in all I think the bard is a very well-designed class.  Heck my cunning bard even picked up a couple of melee powers because the powers were so good and so easy to hit with through songblades, etc.  The only real downside to the bard is that often it will be very subtle in its contribution -- whether by debuffing an enemy, or granting an extra attack, etc.  You probably will not deal a lot of damage yourself directly, but you can absolutely help your party deal a lot more damage overall -- which is pretty much the same thing. I don't have a lot of experience with the warlord or artificer so I can't be of much help.  The cool thing about the artificer though is that its main heal does not require the target to spend a surge, rather the party recharges the main heals between encounters by having anyone spend the surge.</blockquote>

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