It's not that much, but it does silence, and a balanced latent power boosts str, def, int, and spd by 5%, so if you get two of those with a ring of power they can max out stats pretty quickly, it allowed me to ditch whispering skulls on all monsters to free up room for synergy items (which are needed because wyrmlet synergies are wack)
EDIT: the silencing is really usefull for ascetics, but oftentimes they arent actually the closest enemy which is problematic. also I ditched the spell vortex idea, because I realized how broken balanced latent power is, and also mana regen caps at 23 for some reason? So it would get slower over time