Casting your Ultimate Skill while running the Preparation Specialization both cuts 4 seconds off the Ultimate's own cooldown AND resets every other skill's cooldown, rewarding fast-cycling, high-Energy-spend playstyles that can trigger the Ultimate unusually often.
This creates a positive feedback loop distinct from simple CDR stacking: the faster you can re-trigger the Ultimate, the more often you get free resets on your other cooldowns, which in turn helps you re-trigger the Ultimate again sooner. 3.2.1 specifically fixed a bug where Preparation was not granting its intended Damage Reduction component, so the defensive half of this loop is newly reliable this season.
The Specialization directly ties Ultimate-cast frequency to global cooldown state rather than routing through the normal inverse-multiplicative CDR formula, making it a fundamentally different (and more snowball-prone) uptime mechanism than stacking CDR affixes.
4 seconds of self-cooldown-reduction per Ultimate cast, plus a full reset of all other skill cooldowns.
Build Energy generation and Ultimate-cooldown reduction together (rather than either alone) to maximize how often this reset loop triggers per minute of gameplay.
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Patch note: 3.2.1: fixed Preparation not granting Damage Reduction as intended
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