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Hello, between the last PTS patch and live ZOS have seemingly introduced a hidden cooldown on how often you can swap which skills are active on your champion bar. (Around 30 seconds)

You do not tell players about this cooldown, at all. You just say "One or more Champion Points slots cannot be changed"

I may have a theory as to why you have done this, however, I would love for them to let us know somehow if this was intentional and why they chose not to document it anywhere.

@ZOS_GinaBruno @ZOS_SarahHecker @ZOS_JessicaFolsom Could you please provide some insight. As I would really like to know why this decision was made. If you do not want players swapping CP's that regularly could you please let us know. I would love to be able to provide as much benefit to players as I can, however, with this hidden change causing many issues for me and my addon I would really like some communication as to why this change was made.

It is obviously many players aren't happy with the current implementation of the Green CP tree and many players are unhappy with the amount of micromanagement required to achieve the best results out of the system.
I tried to provide a solution for this pain point, however, you have then decided to break it by implementing a long cooldown on how often stars can be slotted to the champion bar.

Many thanks.

EDIT: After looking more into it it seems that it's actually 30 seconds not 15..
about 3 years ago - ZOS_GinaBruno - Direct link
Hey everyone, the cooldown was added to alleviate some performance concerns on both the server and database. As this was something that changed a system new with PTS, we didn't call it out in the Live launch notes.