For your group it stays on if you stop singing.

For yourself it goes poof when you stop singing.

Tal.

It isn't all bad. I can give people 8 minutes of power and kai's in TC before they go hunt if they are having trouble and I am otherwise engaged. It doesn't come up often but it does happen.

Tal.

<<<For your group it stays on if you stop singing.>>>

That's not actually true. While the spell effect does appear to stay on, the benefit stops as soon as the bard stops singing. You can use the MANA verb to verify this.

~ GtG

You change your tune slightly, adding the element for Song of Power to your song...
Your spellsong is ready.
You weave another verse into your harmony.
You feel completely in touch with the flows of mana.
*As you sing, you feel the mana around you begin to fold and shift in a sudden chaotic frenzy!*
Sing Roundtime 3 Seconds.

So, that was a fresh start to the song (I have the log). It was in the Arena and I was the only person present. It is my understanding that the song should NEVER explode on start up unless there is another bard singing power present, or the room has an artificial node in it. I'm being told this may not be the case.

Is my understanding wrong and there is a fumble built in to the start up that I've just never seen? I have several million EXP hunting with the song active and I have never seen such, but that doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Tal.

That is what I suspected had happened... but my question does stand as stated (as if my understanding is wrong I want to know, for the sake of knowing). Have you ever had 1018 kill you on a fresh start in a clean room?

Tal.