That would help to understand how your disagreeing with someone who had a village bard and one that faught non village bards a whole shit ton during there chars life. Its also a plain to see Elhe played a damn damn good bard, now with that taken into consideration a DAMN DAMN fine village bard is saying that they were smoked by non village bards to me says that village bards have much more restrictions then non village bards and thus are harder to pull the victory with on a one on one.
My only personal experiance with this is having played during Taelina's time and seeing 5-7 stacked groups of villager fight single bards and get hosed during raids. Some dipshit bard, not likely but even then its like saying a dipshit healer is hard to kill. The fact of the mater is its never "easy" to kill a healer no matter how stupid they are unless you catch them hardcore with there pants down. Any average bard is going to have fly, stone skin, aura, translucence, and resist mental if they are non villager. Villagers can only have any of that if they are a arial, or if they know about certain gear for resist mental and can get it. Preps for a competition like this are going to be gotten and stocked up on.
If your talking about 2 on 1 its a tough call, but 2 on 2 the non villagers will have an advantage against the villagers unless the villagers are Taelina caliber and the non villagers are lesser quality of players, but even if one of them is of equal quality then its a pretty much good fight. But I would rather be the non villager bard in this setup by a long shot, and I am sure any quality bard would agree. I am not caliming to be a good bard, I have only played 3 bards 2 village bards and 1 non village. This would be over a stretch of the last 3 years 2 of which being within the last year, one villager one not. I would never play a village bard again except for the RP of the village for fun. The advantage is in the non villager by far for PK and explore.