No, they affect the damage of the auto attacks and the time of recast which is important because with the reduction of demolish. you need the recast to be to at the very least 2.00 sec to avoid clipping.
Lower recast time for GCD > More blow given > more chance to crit > more chance to fill the chakra.
it could explain the potency loss in all our attacks and tp reduction in all of them if not the potency, the TP reduction cost itself at least