| As has been posted, all past tests of Cassindra's Chorus of Clarity indicate that singing it twice in one tick (every three seconds) is no more effective than singing it once a tick. Any apparent increase is phantom mana. I don't believe anyone has done a test since Luclin, so I suppose it's possible it's now changed, but I would expect it hasn't. Does anyone have concrete evidence that it works twice a tick? If so, then it should be changed back to the way it used to be, so that it only works once a tick.
It is possible that the higher possible singing mods and Ayonae's Tutelage do make that song more powerful than originally intended, but I don't think it's too far gone. If it was deemed too powerful, though, and large guilds were doing nothing but sticking bards in mana puming positions, making CCoC immune to song mods would be a reasonable change, although lamentable. (It's nice to be able to use it to help your group out of a bind.)
I don't think giving it an icon is a great solution. There were some legitimate uses of it for old world dragons (for example, reducing downtime for rezzing or buffing, in the days before cleric epics) which are still legitimate and important for younger guilds. Giving it an icon would make it better in some ways, worse in others. Basically, I would say that if it's not overpowered when a single bard sings it, it's not overpowered when two sing it in the same group, and vice versa. Would you say that the second and third wizards in a single group should not be able to use the same nukes? Or that the second and third clerics shouldn't be able to use the same heals?
I agree with your sentiment, that a single song should not be so powerful as to reduce the class to using only it (this is basically the rationale behind the mod rod change: mages shouldn't just be mod rod summoners), but I'm not sure that this song qualifies, since by no means do I sing only this song. Of course, I play in a different environment (small guild, single bard in guild), so it's tough to say if it's balanced across the board. |