You won’t need Hopeful Heart on the Watcher, or hardly ever. It doesn’t stack and eventually you’ll be running with groups where everyone has radiance gear. It’s really a useless legendary after they introduced radiance gear.

I run with Fellowship’s Heart and Rally, and swap in Call to War or Master of Tales as needed. Some people like to use Anthem of Wizards for the debuff on the Watcher.

I don’t agree with most of yambu’s advice, but I think that comes down to playstyle, where you’re either a Watcher of Resolve build or a Protector of Song build. For groups, I play 5 Protector and 2 Watcher (Focused Performance and Graceful Demeanor). I’ve never had much trouble with power as long as I get all my ICPR gear: bracelets, shield, and both LI gems.

One last thing about Medium armour and the cap: make sure you’re going to go over the cap before you use a slot on it. Even with full radiance set I don’t hit the cap (26.9%) until I cast Improved Warding, which gets me up to 35.6%. This is light armour though, and if you don’t have radiance gear you might have better medium armour pieces available that would get you to the cap sooner. Just make sure it’s worth it before you slot it.

Another thing you may want to reexamine as you enter Moria and Virtues. They can make a big difference when soloing. I go for morale and -damage, rather than Minstrel-type stats like Will and Fate. Valour and Justice are always in, usually with Innocence. The last 2 I swap depending on situation, but most of the time I use Charity and Compassion. Honour is a good one to swap in if you’re going to do content with a lot of poison debuffs.

2.) with faster ballads in book 7, the extra ballad buff time is nice but unnecessary even at level 60. Skip it. You can keep 4-5 of them up at once even when you get call to war.

3.) skip glorious anthem. You can hit anthem of the valar every 30 seconds with a 4-skald build, and trait it to give you ICMR.

4.) slot the tale-power-consumption trait, it’s the equivalent of 90 ICPR at your level if you run tale of warding and 120 ICPR at cap.

5.) master of tales is NICE but you can heal a decent group even 5-deep in skald. Just slot the healing power cost -% and the tales power cost -% for the bonus healing cost -% at most.

6.) Get rid of smooth voice you have a deed for using ballad of vigour 2000 (yes, two thousand) times that won’t advance when you use the smoothed version.