Cooldown (クールダウン Kuurudaun?) is a gameplay mechanic exclusive to Tales of Crestoria. It governs the usage of artes.
Function[]
Cooldown serves as a replacement to other resources that govern the usage of artes, e.g. Technical Points, Chain Capacity. Once an arte is used it cannot be used for next several turns. Offensive artes usually have lower cooldown values with more powerful ones having longer. Healing artes tend to generally have higher cooldowns to encourage their strategic use. Some units have skills that enable to reset cooldown times for all artes after their uses uses an arte, e.g. Leia [Devoted Staff Striker] has a skill that increases all Earth-elemental party members' chance of all arte cooldown by 5%.