Yeah it's a bug on p99 to lose mana from taps for bards, supposed to be immune. Best example is the named seafury in OoT for epic, you should be able to get at him no problem.
As far as flowing thought is concerned, unfortunately, bards being able to gain more mana through items was a change made during luclin, so on p99 flowing thought shouldnt help bard mana.
thems are the breaks
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