Crazy idea but what if they reclassified the songs as spells again, removed the cool-down, and made them instant-use outside of combat? Then during combat they could make each song grant a self-buff when completed that makes the next one instant use, or if they wanted to enforce a specific rotation do it that way (i.e minuet - ballad - paeon etc).

That way the songs are technically always available if you mess up in some way with timing (i.e dying), but if you need to use the same one twice you’d have to take a 1.5/2s cast-time hit (assuming they still want there to be a ‘punishment’ for mistiming songs). Not sure how they’d stop everyone just staying in Minuet the whole time though, maybe adding a feature to songs that it can’t be sung again if the coda from said song is present, forcing players to cycle through the songs until resetting at burst?

Like how you can’t repeatedly use Motifs until you’ve activated the associated Muse.

Idk dumb idea I just want an excuse for the songs to be cast again lol, it felt more like singing and less like ‘playing an entire song in the space of 0.5 seconds’ lol. Pretty sure my idea would cause billions of issues with opener alone by reclassifying songs as spells and thus being on-the-GCD. I mean, maybe it could work? The devs are making pretty questionable decisions, so maybe that means there’s hope for my ridiculous ideas lol.