Got bored and decided to try and find an item with Cleave on it for you sticky and I noticed not many items in T8 have Cleave on it.
Evolved Pants
Nadox Pants
Immaculate Rubicite Breastplate (Zenurix)
Chaos Laced Ring (Volkara)
Band of Primordial Ethereal Energy (Lithluran)
None of which are upgrades for most high-end Bards with donor pants.
But then again, not many T8 items have Faerune on them either for bards.
Immaculate Frosty Earring (T8 Christmas)
Immaculate Fishbone Earring (Zenurix)
Nadox Helm
HoH Evolved Helm
Crown of the Court Minstrel (Nadox)
Band of Eternal Chaos (The Chaos)
But these items are upgrades for most people.
I remember I had the same issue when trying to get Cleave on my Bard and Melkor, so I decided to put the LDON cleave item into one of my donor items until I found something better. I see you have a Glowing Pearl of Hate in your pants, maybe you want to replace that with it.