I changed my answer to bards after more time with the 2024 rules including the DMG and MM.
Bastion rules include the war room that's restricted to characters with the fighting style feature or unarmored defense feature. That covers barbarians, fighters, monks, paladins, and rangers; and dance bards. The benefit is recruiting up to 10 lieutenants who can each cover 100 guards so it allows those high level characters to maintain their own standing army of just over 1000 to help fight back.
The dance bard also has access to all the spells people mention for wizards or druids through magical secrets, and have strong skill based abilities to apply as well.
2024 dance bards seems most likely to me at this point.
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I changed my answer to bards after more time with the 2024 rules including the DMG and MM.
Bastion rules include the war room that's restricted to characters with the fighting style feature or unarmored defense feature. That covers barbarians, fighters, monks, paladins, and rangers; and dance bards. The benefit is recruiting up to 10 lieutenants who can each cover 100 guards so it allows those high level characters to maintain their own standing army of just over 1000 to help fight back.
The dance bard also has access to all the spells people mention for wizards or druids through magical secrets, and have strong skill based abilities to apply as well.
2024 dance bards seems most likely to me at this point.