Should global cooldowns for powers return?

It pulls a decent amount of aggro. Certainly helps when doing devices, for example.

Well, one device. Because of the cooldown.

I use it (used it because currently I'm playing SP) as distraction which it's decent at - as Lemur mentioned, devices and in general buying time or getting shot at by fewer enemies. Kind of indirect damage reduction.

Someone forgot to tell bioware that in ME1 you had several powers instead of a few.

I'm honestly fine with individual cooldowns but if they are going to be 24 hours long to recharge then those powers better be worth it. Combos hardly do shit in this game and they need a serious buff to damage. Biotic and tech powers is what set ME apart from other shooter games and if those things are barely putting a dent in enemies then all we have is basically another shooter game.

Yeah the 3 power limit is really the stupid thing. Didn't like it in ME3MP, don't like it here. At least in SP you can get around it with favourites and all the cooldown reduction upgrades and things like fusion mod of rapid deployment. In MP it's still annoying to be stuck with only 3 powers.

Would like to have 4 active powers at the bare minimum, ideally more.

Ideally powers should be buffed to stand up on their own unique merits rather than combos.

All combos are pretty much explosions - which is kind of no different from grenades or other aoe explosions in every shooter.

I didn't like the explosion spam in ME3, especially with adepts so in MEA I'd rather see biotics be more effective directly - ie things like making Armour a reduction in effectiveness of crowd control powers like Singularity and Pull rather than flat out immunity, or being able to kill things purely by throwing them into a wall (boosting direct damage and force of throw), or have Backlash able to reflect even more damage to kill things more easily.

I'm not saying combo damage shouldn't be buffed - it is certainly too weak right now and needs buffing. However I'd rather not see biotic classes in MEA devolve into explosion spam only as they did in ME3.

And what would that change except make more effects appear on our screens? Should we learn piano now? ME3 did just well with 3 powers, MEA does just well with three powers. Skill trees and passives are interesting enough - they just aren't viable on higher levels. Same in insanity - you have to cheese it to make it somewhat work.

I just prefer games where you have more options rather than spamming (well long cooldowns prohibit this in MEAMP) the same few things again and again. Especially when one of the three powers can be taken up with "passive" powers like Annihilation. I also don't value passives as actual abilities because you can't actively control them.

I do enjoy pianoing the keyboard in power play - but then I enjoy playing stuff in other games like Elementalist and Mesmer in guild wars 2 where you have a lot of skills available.

Edit: Ideally we could have the option to slot additional powers in place of weapon slots or something similar so it is optional.

Take 5 seconds off of power cooldowns (or the corresponding amount of percentage for lower cooldowns) and I'll gladly keep the separate cooldowns.
Powers not doing much damage wouldn't hurt as much when you're able to use them much more often.

Did you try hitting him with the turret by throwing at him?

Flare was so awesome.

Too bad it was a one off power that they never utilized elsewhere.