I leveled up my bard in much the same way but with an 85 druid PL. Buff yourself up, aggro a load of mobs and have them beat themselves to death on your damage shield, then just before they die perform some AE damage with the char you are leveling up. I would use AE snare to maintain aggro on the dr...

I cant help much on the bane hunting side of thing, but in terms of leveling I would suggest PLing the enc in griegs to catch up on some AA and levels. I would definitely grind AA's before leveling up those chars much more. I did about 350-400AA's on both my mage and bard before leaving. You might f...

I play a Druid Lvl 86/Mage 80/Bard 83 trio and it works pretty well. The druid has a merc tank being the highest level and my only gold account at the moment. The other 2 have melee dps mercs. I'm working through pellicud quests and killing named mobs in there without too much trouble. The named mob...