So one nice positive out of the procs being based on the song itself that I've noticed while playing, you actually get a slight benefit out of downtime now, as the soul gauge can keep filling even when there is no target to hit, and with the extra length to the songs, this means there is often times during a transition or time between trash pack pulls that your next Apex Arrow will be pretty well built up by the time you go into it. While I don't doubt you wouldn't want to throw out your Wanderers minuet song out when a transition is only a few seconds away, it is nice to have something building up in the downtime.

Don't think it makes up for me anyway the loss of how good AoE felt under the dots based procs system, but its definitely a nice feeling watching that gauge grow so consistently.