Jordinn wrote:
I think there are a few choices that could suit you, depending on your style of play etc. I'll speak to troubs mostly as I am one, dirges may vary some in their choices.
Sol Ro has healing, DPS, and a good cloak for spell procs. Nothing huge, and a few that we can't use too well (fire proc from BCG might trigger thefire based requirement?).
Quellios does boost mental which is good for troub, and for group utility some of the power regen stuff looked nice. The Deagro effect (IIRC) really isn't a thing bards need 
Tunare has some nice stuff tucked in there around healing, and a pet or 2. Could be useful combind with Quiron's (Yean I know it's regen not healing, bummer, but the added healing and regen from both could still be useful).
Dirgs probably benefit more from Mith Marr, but both could really get some solid DPS out of this god choice and a Bard getting +50 Str out of the cloak could be a boon to DPS CAs.
Brell - too many Tradesill effects for my taste, but the pets and AE blessings offered a DPS boost and some utilty. Tradeskill heavy bard might consider this option.
Evil troubs I didn't look at and I don't recall what Brell's cloak does off the top of my head.
In Beta, I tested Zek and Innoruk. They are both pretty good. In live, I went with Sol Ro. I found a couple of miracles that he had that I thought were useful for my raid dps and not too tricky to appropriately use. I also like the 65 damage bonus to all attack spells... Its small, but noticable over a longer fight given the fast recast of some of our abilities.
Message Edited by Malicorp on 11-16-2006 09:25 AM