Solon's did only last 3 ticks previously. It did not auto refresh the song, it was pulse based...
For example.. charm a mob... mana bar gets hit.. keep singing the song, and when the mob breaks charm, the next pulse will attempt to recharm. There is no mana cost on the additional attempt, only if you were to stop and restart the song would you get the additional mana hit.
After patch, they increased the mana cost threefold (swarm kite nerf) but as a reparation they increased the time to 1 minute. (didn't help swarm kiters with the increase)
Swarm kiting was still possible at this point, but a bard could only do it for 1-2 hours tops before running out of mana. Meditate skill of 1 led to that being a pretty drastic hit. Some bards purposely stacked flowing thought at this point to try to combat it, but swarm kiting was never the same afterwards
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