Cooldowns

How is skill cooldown calculated?

Take the cooldown on the skill. Divide it by (1 + Cooldown Reduction / 100). A 0 result, or a divisor that is not greater than 0, leaves the table cooldown unchanged.

How is cooldown lowered?

Cooldown Reduction is the stat that shortens a skill's own cooldown. Willpower adds +0.3 per point. Inscriptions, blessings and a few other effects add more. A negative value lengthens the wait.

Is global cooldown affected by cooldown reduction?

No. After a skill, global cooldown is 5 s. The game works out a reduced value, but the step that starts the clock ignores it and uses the table value. A new global cooldown only replaces the remaining one when it is longer.

Does cooldown reduction change a cooldown that is already running?

No. The game sets the length of a skill's cooldown once, when you use the skill. Then the wait counts down at a fixed speed, and no stat is read while it counts. Cooldown Reduction you gain later does not shorten a running cooldown. A cooldown that started while you had more reduction keeps its shorter length after the bonus ends. Wave Cycle is different: it cuts the time left on cooldowns that are already running.

Most skills use this divide. The table uses the most common cooldowns in this build, and the reduction amounts the game actually grants.

Example: a 15 s skill with +20 cooldown reduction waits 12.5 s.

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The formula is not one-for-one. The first points of cooldown reduction cut more wait than the same amount added later.

The graph is leftover wait, as a share of the table cooldown. With none, you wait the full time. At 100 cooldown reduction you wait half.

On a 15 s skill, the first +20 saves 2.5 s. The next +20 only saves 1.786 s.

Will Power is slow on this curve: each point is +0.3. Inscriptions jump +10, +20, +30 in one go.

Will Power alone, on a 15 s skill. That is the most common table cooldown.

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Using a skill starts a 5 s global cooldown on that unit. Other skills wait for it. The amount is the combat table value, copied onto the unit. Cooldown reduction is not applied. The patch notes say cooldown reduction now shortens the global cooldown. In this build the skill check does work out the reduced value, but the step that starts the clock still uses the stored 5 s, so the wait does not get shorter.

If a shorter global cooldown would land while a longer one is still running, the remaining wait is kept. Equipping a weapon while the unit is in combat starts a 10 s wait on the same clock; other equipment and equipping outside combat do not.

A skill whose own table cooldown is 0, such as a basic attack, has no cooldown check at all: it neither waits for the global cooldown nor starts it. Only your own units start a global cooldown; monsters and allies never do.

Every effect that writes cooldown reduction is in the table. Cooldown Reduction itself is built from Willpower first, then any extra percent modifiers.

On top of those effects, each point of Willpower adds +0.3 cooldown reduction.

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Source	Cooldown reduction	How you get it
High-grade Cooldown Reduction Inscription	+30	Inscription
Mid-grade Cooldown Reduction Inscription	+20	Inscription
Low-grade Cooldown Reduction Inscription	+10	Inscription
Porter	-10	Background
Cooldown Reduction	+30	Granted by Ebb and Flow, Life Burst.
Taking Skill Cooldown Potion	+30	No obtainable source in this build. Also in the data: Skill Cooldown Potion.
Perhaps a Harp	+20	No obtainable source in this build.
Goddess' Blessing (Skill Cooldown)	+10	No obtainable source in this build.

A few skills divide their table cooldown by attack speed instead of by (1 + cooldown reduction / 100). Cooldown reduction does not enter that path. A skill whose table cooldown is 0 never reaches either divide.

Skill	Table cooldown
Run	1 s
Goblin Flee	10 s
Resurrection	10 s
Earth Crash	15 s
Goblin Curse	15 s
Blood Rain	16 s