I was doing a rotation of 6 geos (3x2), with a short med break before repops, and would go at least 3 hours on a full mana bar before going OOM, could be extended to 4-5 hours if you really min-max the crap out of sitting in between each song twist (I put sit on a hotkey and twisted it in to stretch mana bar or when I was running low at times to get through the end of the cycle). Took about 1 hour to med back to full so great for taking a food break, ect. Alternatively you could easily do 8 or more geos before repops if you wanted to burn your bar faster and condense your timetable.
I was using a 6 song twist with selo's drum equipped.
1. Charm (switch target)
2. Fufils
3. Chant of Flame
4. Chant of Frost
5. Fulfils
6. Chant of Flame
1. Charm/repeat
If you keep your twist semi tight you will start over at 1 and charm will break just slightly before you land a new one, charming the mob that you were previously DoTing (if you twist close to perfect you can actually complete the twist and land the charm before it breaks so sometimes I had to recast my charm on the repeat so it didn't land too early).
You can do this without ever taking any hits from the geos with a little bit of practice. I prefer the middle of the back 3 caves as there is a perfect round of 6, pullable in 2s with a ton of room to move around and not run into others).
I decided not to pursue a prayer shawl (hoping for CT brains some day) for a few reasons:
1) The exp I got using this method is the best exp I've ever experienced both grouping and solo'ing accross multiple classes (a high skilled enchanter is probably the only class capable of exp'ing faster)
2) Because I was gaining so fast I determined the amount of time it would take to obtain a prayer shawl would not be recouped by the time I would hit 60 doing this without one.
3) Outside of this specific use case FT1 isn't really that useful to a bard.
The only way I could see prayer shawl really paying off here is if you wanted to use this strat to power level others and therefore would be spending much more time here than just leveling 50-60. Based on my efforts to min-max sitting at times I suspect you could go non-stop killing atleast 8 geos before repops with little or no sit time and an effectively infinite mana pool. I intend to go back someday when I have drums of the beast and CT brains to test that expectation.
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