Mass Effect 3 Power Cooldown Time Chart

Mass Effect 3 Power Cooldown Time Chart

Mass Effect 3 calculates the cooldown time of powers as Base Time / (100% + Weapon Weight Adjustment + Recharge Bonuses).

The table below shows the effect of Cooldown bonuses on various base recharge times. The "%" column shows what percentage of normal cooldown time is achieved from the bonus.

• Notice that after +200% (which you can get from having a light weapon loadout), cooldown bonuses typically translate into fractions of a second and are not significant except for powers with very long base cooldown times.
• At around +150% or less, you will probably start having trouble detonating your own power combos unless your powers have a base speed of 4 to 6 seconds. Even so, damage output becomes severely reduced.
• Therefore the Sentinel Tech Armor + Fortification build for 90% Damage Reduction and +60% Power Force and Damage a tricky option as a power build. The damage bonus is attractive, and you can still do a reasonable approximation with fast-recharge squad members, but you won't have the string of near-continuous chain power combos you can get with an Engineer.

Squad cooldowns are not affected by weapon weight, so they typically see more benefits from cooldown bonuses.

		Cooldown Time
Bonus	%	4	6	8	10	12	20	30
0%	100%	4.00	6.00	8.00	10.00	12.00	20.00	30.00
5%	95%	3.81	5.71	7.62	9.52	11.43	19.05	28.57
10%	91%	3.64	5.45	7.27	9.09	10.91	18.18	27.27
15%	87%	3.48	5.22	6.96	8.70	10.43	17.39	26.09
20%	83%	3.33	5.00	6.67	8.33	10.00	16.67	25.00
25%	80%	3.20	4.80	6.40	8.00	9.60	16.00	24.00
30%	77%	3.08	4.62	6.15	7.69	9.23	15.38	23.08
35%	74%	2.96	4.44	5.93	7.41	8.89	14.81	22.22
40%	71%	2.86	4.29	5.71	7.14	8.57	14.29	21.43
45%	69%	2.76	4.14	5.52	6.90	8.28	13.79	20.69
50%	67%	2.67	4.00	5.33	6.67	8.00	13.33	20.00
55%	65%	2.58	3.87	5.16	6.45	7.74	12.90	19.35
60%	63%	2.50	3.75	5.00	6.25	7.50	12.50	18.75
65%	61%	2.42	3.64	4.85	6.06	7.27	12.12	18.18
70%	59%	2.35	3.53	4.71	5.88	7.06	11.76	17.65
75%	57%	2.29	3.43	4.57	5.71	6.86	11.43	17.14
80%	56%	2.22	3.33	4.44	5.56	6.67	11.11	16.67
85%	54%	2.16	3.24	4.32	5.41	6.49	10.81	16.22
90%	53%	2.11	3.16	4.21	5.26	6.32	10.53	15.79
95%	51%	2.05	3.08	4.10	5.13	6.15	10.26	15.38
100%	50%	2.00	3.00	4.00	5.00	6.00	10.00	15.00
105%	49%	1.95	2.93	3.90	4.88	5.85	9.76	14.63
110%	48%	1.90	2.86	3.81	4.76	5.71	9.52	14.29
115%	47%	1.86	2.79	3.72	4.65	5.58	9.30	13.95
120%	45%	1.82	2.73	3.64	4.55	5.45	9.09	13.64
125%	44%	1.78	2.67	3.56	4.44	5.33	8.89	13.33
130%	43%	1.74	2.61	3.48	4.35	5.22	8.70	13.04
135%	43%	1.70	2.55	3.40	4.26	5.11	8.51	12.77
140%	42%	1.67	2.50	3.33	4.17	5.00	8.33	12.50
145%	41%	1.63	2.45	3.27	4.08	4.90	8.16	12.24
150%	40%	1.60	2.40	3.20	4.00	4.80	8.00	12.00
155%	39%	1.57	2.35	3.14	3.92	4.71	7.84	11.76
160%	38%	1.54	2.31	3.08	3.85	4.62	7.69	11.54
165%	38%	1.51	2.26	3.02	3.77	4.53	7.55	11.32
170%	37%	1.48	2.22	2.96	3.70	4.44	7.41	11.11
175%	36%	1.45	2.18	2.91	3.64	4.36	7.27	10.91
180%	36%	1.43	2.14	2.86	3.57	4.29	7.14	10.71
185%	35%	1.40	2.11	2.81	3.51	4.21	7.02	10.53
190%	34%	1.38	2.07	2.76	3.45	4.14	6.90	10.34
195%	34%	1.36	2.03	2.71	3.39	4.07	6.78	10.17
200%	33%	1.33	2.00	2.67	3.33	4.00	6.67	10.00
205%	33%	1.31	1.97	2.62	3.28	3.93	6.56	9.84
210%	32%	1.29	1.94	2.58	3.23	3.87	6.45	9.68
215%	32%	1.27	1.90	2.54	3.17	3.81	6.35	9.52
220%	31%	1.25	1.88	2.50	3.13	3.75	6.25	9.38
225%	31%	1.23	1.85	2.46	3.08	3.69	6.15	9.23
230%	30%	1.21	1.82	2.42	3.03	3.64	6.06	9.09
235%	30%	1.19	1.79	2.39	2.99	3.58	5.97	8.96
240%	29%	1.18	1.76	2.35	2.94	3.53	5.88	8.82
245%	29%	1.16	1.74	2.32	2.90	3.48	5.80	8.70
250%	29%	1.14	1.71	2.29	2.86	3.43	5.71	8.57
255%	28%	1.13	1.69	2.25	2.82	3.38	5.63	8.45
260%	28%	1.11	1.67	2.22	2.78	3.33	5.56	8.33
265%	27%	1.10	1.64	2.19	2.74	3.29	5.48	8.22
270%	27%	1.08	1.62	2.16	2.70	3.24	5.41	8.11
275%	27%	1.07	1.60	2.13	2.67	3.20	5.33	8.00
280%	26%	1.05	1.58	2.11	2.63	3.16	5.26	7.89
285%	26%	1.04	1.56	2.08	2.60	3.12	5.19	7.79
290%	26%	1.03	1.54	2.05	2.56	3.08	5.13	7.69
295%	25%	1.01	1.52	2.03	2.53	3.04	5.06	7.59
300%	25%	1.00	1.50	2.00	2.50	3.00	5.00	7.50