(2) increases damage of cadence by 15%
I'm alright with this bonus, as long as its a real 15% increase, not a silly base 15% increase which is more or less really a 3% increase
(4) Reduces the cooldowns of Verse abilities by 20%
This bonus sucks! Not even worth getting if I can find items with better stats elsewhere! Here's why:
Verse of Vitality: This is by far the most useful of the verse abilities, but 20% is only a 12 second reduction, and I only use Verse of Vitality when I REALLY need to use it, I've learned the cooldowns and capabilities of my fellow healers so I know exactly when to use verse of vitality, and quite frankly, I'm alright with a 60 second cooldown, because I only use it every about minute and a half.
Verse of Joy: This ability has always been hard to gauge when exactly it's useful for the raid to use, It's really useful for warmaster in river of souls because of all the draining that the boss does, but in fights where there's no external draining of people's resources, it's really not that useful. Ferver really does its job in keeping people's energy up, Verse of Joy seems like it's overkill and is a waste of points spent into bard IMO. (my build doesn't even have joy in it.) Although I think this is mostly a problem with verse of joy, it's not really a good ability to invest 51 points into getting it. (I think it should additionally reduce the global cooldown by .25 or something)
Verse of Captivation: What?
Verse of Fascination: you and aoe mez 6 seconds earlier than before... honestly what bard spams this ability as soon as its up other than a pvp bard? No dedicated pvp'er is going to sacrifice 4 pieces of gear with valor in order to get 6 off of their cooldown of this ability.
Trion I hope you read this and think of a better bonus for the 4 piece synergy
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