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In City of Heroes, Knights have the highest HP and defense stats of the available occupations. Their skills are also fast to recharge, so they are capable of doing a lot of damage quickly to monsters and invading soul armies. However, their attacks and attack skills bring the knight very close to opponents. So there is a lot of risk there.

In battles against other soul linkers (PvP and PvE), the knight can often be forced idle behind his army when the opposing army grows too large. The knight's army does tend to do well with the knight just commanding, though. The zerd's special attack will do a lot of burst damage to soften up opposing armies, which makes the finishing blow relatively easy. The bard really isn't cheaper than the zerd, which often leads beginning commanders to focus mostly or completely on zerd production for maximum damage output. This strategy is often very successful in beginner level(CoH Influence) matches.