How do ability-cooldowns work/stack?

How are ability-cooldowns calculated?

Ability has x seconds cd.

You have multiple items/gear that reduce ability cd’s.

You have abilitys that reduce ability cd’s.

How exactly does this all stack?

And if an ability is currently in cd, are the calculations based on the original ability cd or on the remaining cd time?

Cooldown reduction affects the maximum cooldown timer, not the remaining time.

If you have 5 pieces of gear with 2% global cooldown reduction, it’ll total up and apply a 10% reduction to the base cooldown of an ability.

Likewise, perks that reduce active cooldowns by a percentage work of the base cooldown.
In fact, dunno if it’s a bug but any perk that says “reduces cooldowns by n% on hit” actually means per target hit.
I have a clip of myself instantly refreshing the 45 second cooldown of Defiant Stance with a single Reverse Stab by hitting 4 skeletons at once with it, twice in a row.

Thanks, helped me a lot.

Since I am tank too, i know about that and it is not that hard to achieve this in PVE, but in PVP I think its very hard to achive instant cd of Final Stance.

I would be realy mad if they decide it to be a bug an therfore change it.

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