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There is in some Some games also something use a mechanic called a "global cooldown", which will affect all spells, skills and items. It's a measure making it easier to balance the game, limiting the number of things a player can do at once. All skills are not necessarily affected by global cooldown, or causes ittrigger a global cooldown.
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It's part of the game to prevent a player from doing too much at once just because he or she presses the mouse button. It's usually part of the design, so that powerful spells have a longer cooldown, and can't be used repeatedly.
Sometimes a spell spells or ability abilities have a long cooldown because it has they have a short [[cast time]]. These two are often balanced against each other. The advantage of a long cooldown over a long cast time is that a player can still run around and use other spells while waiting for the powerful more spell's cooldown to run out.
A cooldown is not bound to only spells or abilities. In [[Diablo 3]], [[Potion|Healing Potion]]s will have a cooldown to prevent players from spamming heals like in its predecessor.
==Global Cooldown==