I love Bards, and noticed the two new archies in the ACG,in particular the Flame Dancer (FD) as it adds non-class spells to your spell list, unfortunately not until level 8 where you gain burning hands, flaming sphere & fireball as 1st, 2nd & 3rd level spells.
If you add this to probably the worst optimized spell casting class that Samsarans can enhance you get some possible very interesting builds.
Firstly you really need to Max out you Cha to 18 (Samsarans gain +2 to Int & Wis, and -2 to Con) which give us a pool of 5 (class ability grants mental stat +1) to buy in 5 spells that can be added to any level regardless of whether you can cast them yet or not.
As I'm fully sold on a Bard here (they keep inspire courage and have great spell lists and flavour) and the FD grants us wizard spells I'm stuck as to which spells to pick.
In happy investing in Focus/Gr.Focus to bump up save DC's and metamagic for AoE dazing plus whatever fits but fits what!
Still I'm not getting any further with this build.
Should I just pick the highest rated non-bard wiz/sorc spells each level (and what the hell are those??? ) or go with a more utility approach, or even a super highly specialized buffer to rule them all baring in mind at 8th level I can metamagic the 3 freebies from FD and practically never need another blast spell again (also depending of metamagic option taken)
Please Heeeelp