Guild Wars 2

I have googled this over and over but it never actually finds me my answer so I am asking the expert community here (sorry if it’s been asked before):

What is the lowest possible cooldown you can achieve with the attunment swaps and how do you get there? I know putting points into Arcana is the way to do it but how low can you get that number?

I broke away from leveling my ele for a while and played engi for a bit. Having kits on a 1 sec cooldown made everything so much easier and when I come back to Ele, I find I am missing the quick changes. I know I can never get it down that low…but I was curious to know how low going 30 into Arcana can get it. Tooltips and such in this game don’t help or are confusing :/

Each point you put in the arcana line reduces the recharge by one percent. The global cooldown (the time until you can swap attunements again) starts out at 1.625s and can go down to 1,25s. The cooldown of an attunement (the time until you can use it again after swapping away from it) starts out at 13s and can go down to 10s.

The formula seems to be as follows:
<base time> * 100 / (100 + <points in arcana>)

So the lowest it can go is 10sec? If that’s the case…this is gonna be frustrating to get back into I think.

I get that it’s to restrict from spamming everything or being able to constantly and consistently heal but man it’s annoying to have to lock yourself out of skills for a full 10sec

if you rotate attunements and skills properly, the cooldown is never really an issue. most weapon skills have cooldowns longer than 10s anyway.