In World of warcraft, each spell has its own cooldown time. Fundamental spells usually have zero or very few cooldowns, where as more powerful spells have 6 or more seconds of cooldown. Huge buffs like Recklessness for Warrior have 5 minute cooldown time.
After each spell/ability is used, there is a 1.5 of global cooldown, disallowing use of spells/abilities for the next 1.5 seconds. Some abilities does not trigger global cooldown, such as Warrior's Bloodrage.
Global cooldown is an innovative and great design. It prevents mass nuking that frequently occured in previous MMO games. WoW also has a great animation for global cooldown.
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