Global or Individual cooldowns?

I just know that the rhythm in ME3 "just felt right". For power usage. I find myself often spamming a power button, but there is still a sliver of CD left. Then again: powers and combos do shit right now.

I dont really share your conclusion but I can understand your reasoning.

Individual cooldowns are ok and allow a tad more flexibility, but the cooldowns are flat out to long too begin with. When I think about it, that's maybe because of the pointless prestige system we have. Feels like the 10% bonus from everything was scratched from the initial values to begin with.

Individual cooldowns would be good if we could use 5-6 powers straight away. With only 3 active powers (even in the single player) it's kind of pointless to have independent cooldowns, not to mention that here (in the MP) most classes have a useless/grenade third power so what's the point? Incinerate, overload, take 50% of a bronze raider HP away, then wait 12 seconds. Great
Still I think that with the current cooldowns (some powers like biotic charge are already good) halved the current system could be preserved.

Just FYI I remember that in ME3 MP an engineer carrying a CLAYMORE ( ) had something like 5 seconds cooldown with his powers, that meant a combo every 10 seconds (a BIG DAMAGING ONE, not these pitiful ones) plus one of the best OHK guns in the game.

I think it's ok as is, but they just need to be more useful.

And that's why MEA falls short for me.

It would just use your global cooldown for the wrong power way too often, leaving you unable to use the double button power. This is part of the reason i like the individual ones. Also I just like the new rhythm, and though pet powers have long cooldpons I dont feel theyre too long generally speaking.

I just want my power usage to be meaningful. I want to be able to strip shields with overload on silver with a max shield damage overload spec.

I want combos to kill things again. Its bad enough that enemies don't group like they did in ME3 due to map design, but explosions do are more detrimental than beneficial to players right now.

Individual cooldowns make way more sense to me.

Global cooldowns lead to me having a lot of builds in ME3 where I completely removed abilities because there would be situations where shared cooldowns made the weaker ability redundant.

The problem for me is that the devs present this as some kind of solution to a problem they believe existed. Like this is presented as an improvement that will lead to faster and better power use and thus an improved user experience. This is an issue I feel pretty damn salty about since I love casters (so consider yourself warned - this is a rant)!!

1. Global cooldowns was NEVER a PROBLEM, dicks.
2. Don't tell me your new system lets casters use powers quicker/better when this is CLEARLY NOT THE CASE, dicks.

What the fuck do I care that I can use all three of my shitty powers within as fast as their animation allows (another hidden cooldown) on the first cast, when the next cast has to wait HALF of a Wave, with the fucking insane cooldowns??!!

Fuck your shitty idea, and don't tell me your new shit is better when the numbers and user experience clearly demonstrate this is absolutely not the fucking case you smug shits.

I should still be able to cast Throw every second, Incinerate and Overload every ~2.5 seconds, Charge every 2 seconds, etc. and until that returns, your new system is shit and limits casters effectiveness by the weapons you've unlocked. Fuck that and fuck you.

Among the many poor UI decisions in MEA, the ability to quickly ascertain if a power is of CD is one of them.  Have a sliver left and the power being ready look far too similar.

I think it can work either way. They needed to change something up from ME3 so I do believe this was a good idea. However it was very badly implemented. I think the cooldowns should be such that you can use powers collectively more frequently than in ME3, but the same power less frequently.

You're right, base cooldowns were longer in ME3 than I remember. I tended towards power classes and liked to just carry a pistol. Bioware needs to find a way to reward casters for going light.