Editing Bard (section)

===Strengths===
The Bard is a support class with a number of buffs, debuffs and limited healing capabilities.  They have a number of long duration group/raid buffs called Fanfares. They can also toggle one of several Anthems (e.g. increased movement speed or increased armor) which last indefinitely and affect the Bard's entire group and raid within a certain distance; again, only one Anthem can be active per Bard.  Finally, they get a number of Motifs: short duration (15–30 seconds) buffs which must be continually recast, but which greatly enhance the party's damage and survivability.  At higher specializations, a Bard's Motifs cover almost every stat in the game while providing a happy dosage of health, mana, energy, power, and charge per second.  Such as with Fanfares and Anthems, two Bards casting the same Motif only overwrite one another when in a group or raid, so splitting Motif duties for more flexibility in using healing or debuffing Codas is an excellent plan of attack for organized groups.

Even touhgh they have the same starting skills, look at their skill tree and you'll find out that there are still tons of unique skills for each of those souls. Overlapping and redundancy in skills are common only for the starting level but they'll greatly differ as you level up.