[Gevarien~SolRo]

What the hell are you talking about?

Even if we assume that 32 mana would produce the non-phantom amount of mana you give, what as grandbean said parses indicate to be false, this whole post would still make zero sense.

First off, even under this assumption, the most effective twist for a 6 man group is not constantly playing that one song 32-32-32-32, it is: Activate Voice / Cloak, Amp, Marr, 32, 32, 32, Marr, Amp, 32, 32, etc.

32 Mana beeing better than 61+ Winds / Chorus? No dice. 27 mana per pulse vs 63 mana per pulse. See, the difference is, you need to constantly keep pulsing 32 Chorus while one pulse of Marr will last for 3 ticks. Playing Marr over 32 will also allow you to twist 2-3(depending on your con, video lag, etc) other songs in addition to it, if you want to compare a constant pulsing of 32 to anything you have to compare it to what you usually twist. It's not amp-32 Mana vs Marr, the correct comparison is 32 Mana-amp vs say Marr + Riz + Warsong + Psalm.

32 Mana has exactly one use, to allow us to focus on producing mana for short periods of time if mana is needed above everything else, for example if your only slower just died and you need to pump him for a reslow, or if two of your clerics ate a drain-AE and need to regen fast to keep the rot going. Using it actually drops your total direct damage + indirect damage (atk, foci, haste, DS) + healing + mana produced for reasons stated above, it is only effective when the value of mana over anything else is way above what it usually is.

5 Bards grouped with a Cleric dedicated to the sole task of giving him Mana can generate a metric fuckton of it? Well no shit Sherlock, try dedicating 5 Necros to a single cleric, he'll burst sooner or later. Why is this not overpowered? Because no guild has 5 Necros for each cleric, same with Bards. Or you could just replace those 5 mana machines with clerics and get better results.