General comments:  These buffs are well-received and improve satisfaction playing the class.  I've noticed more succ. drakanias around and most of the people I've spoken to cite the adjustments to her animations feeling great and allow them to play more competitively. 

PVE comments:  The animation adjustments translate well into PVE content as well.  Previously, grinding was not remotely competitive in this class meta, but is now enjoyable.  Improved damage on Brimbolt Strike and Sundering Claw helped as well.  Unfortunately the mob clear speed/trash loot amounts still fall short compared to other popular, efficient classes.  The only spot I've seen succ. drakania keep up is at lower Gyfins.  I believe this is because of her ability to have a few seconds of "ramp up" time & her ability to maintain back attacks on these mobs that are effectively stationary.  While the mobs are "waking up"/waiting on the dp buff to expire, you can generate ions and it's no damage loss since those ability do peanuts for damage anyways.

PVE suggestions:  Increase PVE damage on the ion spenders again.  Succession is forced into somewhat rigid ability sequences in PVE, you cannot go without ions and those abilities take time to cast and do no damage.  We cannot ask for these to be removed and even if they were, we may run into issues with cooldown times on the ion spenders.  I think the solution is to buff the ion spender damage again on all of them, as goofy as it sounds.  If we're to compete with other grinders like succession guardian or berserker & we have to do a couple barely-any-damage moves to start a sequence, we need to make up for the time spent somewhere else, and I don't see anywhere else besides the back-half of the sequence aka when you're spending ions.  Another option is buffing the ion generators (aka Omnislash, Brimbolt Raze, Abyssal Fang, Skewer) but they would need like 300% damage increases to be remotely relevant.