GetSpellBaseCooldown

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Added in 4.3.0 / 1.13.2

Gives the (unmodified) cooldown and global cooldown of an ability in milliseconds.

cooldownMS, gcdMS = GetSpellBaseCooldown(spellid)

Arguments

spellid

number - The spellid of your ability.

Returns

cooldownMS

number - Millisecond duration of the spell's cooldown (if any other than the global cooldown)

gcdMS

number - Millisecond duration of the spell's global cooldown (if any)

Note

Polling the second return value will discover if a particular spell is subject to GCD.

Patch changes

Patch 4.3.0 (2011-11-29): Added.

See also

• GetSpellCooldown