Luopan Survivability

Been doing some bead farms a bit lowman and I'm dualboxing a geo. We wanted to keep geo-frailty up but the mp cost is a bit daunting when the luopan dies often. I was using lasting emanation and dematerialize as often as possible but I'm wondering if there are any other tricks to keep the luopan living longer?

Is life cycle worth using also?

(I'm looking for things I can do, not suggestions on how to stun lock better.)

No, not really much you can do. I cast in as much Conserve MP gear as I can muster and avoid using Attrition/Blaze if it's something I know is going to go ABSOLUTELY CRAYONS with AoE attacks unless Dematerialize is up. I also stomp on people if I don't have ballads.

This is sort of unrelated to the exact nature of the topic, but I just want to mention that if you're playing danger-GEO you really want to be using a spellcast which equips to your IdleDT set right after spell completion instead of waiting on the casting bar to complete.

You could do it manually but, *** hitting extra buttons.

Stomping on people for ballad. :) Thanks for the suggestions, will work on a better conserve mp set for casting.

Pet -PDT and MDB staves + -DT Selenian Cap? I expected geo to get stout servant ><. Maybe a merit category for those soon.

Luopans don't receive pet effects.

Wow that's... Crap. any info on the reasoning behind it?

Well, they're not pets.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luopan