Quote Originally Posted by Eloah View Post
How does adjusting things so that cutting Armys Paean isn't desired, translate into a desire in cutting Mages Ballad. The main reason for the cutting isnt the songs CD, it's the affect. Armys Paean has the least desired affect so it gets clipped. SE would need to adjust things so that players want their song to play out for the full duration. The 80s CD is just a way to ensure that a song is always available when cycling through the songs.
you gave the reason yourself, the problem isn't the cooldown, its the effect. one song will allways be the weakest, unless all 3 are identical thats inevitable so if you make the effect of armys better so it isn't the worst song anymore something else (mages ballad in that case) will be the worst song instead and you would cut that.

the only real way to get away from that is to literally force you to use all three songs for their full duration, in that case they could aswell turn their cooldown up to 90s and be done with it, that would be a nerf though, buffing armys paeon so its better than mages would indeed be a buff, it would however simply shift the problem to the next weakest song.