Accolade Powers - time modification request/idea

The accolade powers are great, but with the 25 minute recharge rate it feels a little underwhelming. I feel that a reduction to a 5 minute recharge time would make for a much more useful and rewarding adjustment.
The fact that these powers cannot be given enhancements to increase their effectiveness makes the time reduction a far more reasonable idea. If they were able to be modified by enhancement slots, the powers may become unbalanced towards other aspects in the game.
This new time difference would still make the user would still have to choose what they were and when they are going to use the powers, while allowing it to make a power that isn't so forgettable on a task bar.

Here are links to the powers in question for further reference:
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/CoV_Accolade_Powers
http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/CoH_Accolade_Powers

The recharge times on the Accolades are as high as they are for a very specific reason: to make them a panic button/emergency overdrive power rarely used, rather than a regular part of your combat strategy. Several of them are EXTREMELY POWERFUL. About the only Accolade Power I'd agree needs its recharge dropped is the Immobilizer Pistol, because that thing's close to worthless as is.

It is extremely unlikely that we'd see any reduction in recharge to most of the Accolade Powers without a substantial corresponding drop in their effect.

The only thing I'd like to have better recharge is the immobilizer pistol. Even if it had a 10 second recharge it'd be far from overpowered...

You have to be mindful of global recharge bonuses too.

Many players ahave achieved perma-Hasten by getting +100% Recharge through set bonuses (or powers like Accelerate Metabolism of Quickness), and therefore all temps get +180% recharge or so from Hasten plus the bonuses.

5 minute recharge would mean something like a 1 min 40 recharge for buffs that last 1 minute, ie Eye of the Magus/Demonic would be up more than it was down.

Geas of the Kind Ones offers +100% recharge. That would then recharge in 90 seconds or less, ie 30 sec downtime for both Eye of the Magus/Geas on a perma-Hasten build if you fired them off as soon as they were up.

On my level 50 Grav/Emp I've got Eye of the Magus and Geas of the Kind Ones down to about 8-10 minutes (depending on the Force Feedback proc), at which point they already feel like they've become part of my regular playstyle, almost like a mini-Incarnate system when I got them.


The Crey Pistol is another matter by the way. 1 miunte recharge or less for that baby!

If the Crey immobilizer changed to a 10 second recharge, it would still be on my tray of miscellaneous powers like the St. Louis Slammer or Rock, that never get used.

Ok i feel like an idiot now. Thank you for showing me all the reasons this was a bad idea, but to be fair it was the Crey immobilizer that spurred this thought. .

Man that's a useless power as it is.