If the staff cherry picks class balance from all around the patches of 10 years (all in favour for one realm) this is called custom simple as that.
For the bard
Its not only the root. Its also the skillpoint buff that gives bard acces to way to much healing. Hib groups already run with 4-5 healers /hybrids around. The bard in his current form is just the overkill that realy sticks out but there are so many problems with hib right now its unreal. I play cleric and my cleric doesnt heal as much as a bard who is an f... off healer. Why? Because i didnt get 50% extra skillpoints for no reason at all. Its the opposide. For some reason my cleric dont get any aoe buffshears on this server.
The bard in hib grps now doing everything. All other guys just have to put their bl stun and whatever nuke is available on their quickbar and boom fight is over. No group play neccesary, if the bard knows what he is doing the rest of the group can just going ham. One char in a group shouldnt have so much impact on a fight ever.
Also where the delusion of some people comes that hib was ever weak or some underdog realm thingy , i dont know but if the current state of the "balance" is what some people need to win a fight as a hib, then there is nothing more to say anyway.
The last sentence from a hib of all is so absolutly bonkers that i wont even answer to that.
I truly hope the staff of this server will put up a clean 1.94 (i think it was the patchgoal) with season 2 so everyone can have fun again^^
Otherwise, at least i see it that way, this server will join all the other failed freeshards on the big failed freeshard pile pretty fast. If the staff cant be neutral and have to push their favorite realm this wont end well.