It's sort of hard for me to decide. In FFXI I started with intentions of being a bard and loved being a support character... and then I slowly turned into an epic bard tank. I loved tanking and when I quit to play WoW, I played a Prot War. I love being beefy with a big shield. But since I feel almost obligated to be a Lalafell and I will be very unlikely to have the type of time to commit that is needed to be a serious tank, I'll probably aim at bard.

I decided to try out Lancer just to try something different in the Beta and since I loved my Dragoon in FFXI. But bard looks great and I did briefly play a hunter in LOTRO and liked it pretty well.

My wife is going to be a White Mage. She got BRD, WHM, and BLM to 75 in FFXI (and eventually to 85 I think), but she enjoys White Mage the most, especially the iconic gear. Although she play hunter most seriously in WoW and wonders if she might be interested in Bard. I think I'll try to veto that.