hm, how are you going to bot the new char? do you have 2 or 3 machines, or do you run multiple instances?
apart from that, the bard is an addition to any group, very versatile (as you surely know yourself, hehe) - slows, regen, haste, Crowd Control.. I would think he is more difficult to box though than a monk in order to utilize him properly (never did box bard, so I may be wrong).
the monk you "only" need to position properly, and then he does his job - from boxing a Wiz and a Pal though I know, that boxing melees can be tricky, due to push i.e. - not a fire+forget char really either :(
I guess that you would potentially use 80% of the monks abilities when 3 boxing, and maybe 50% of what a Bard can add... just some numbers...
hmmm...
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