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At what point does cooldown reduction cap out? Is it possible to hit the cap with only masteries and runes?

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Cooldown reduction (CDR) has a hard cap at 40%.

You can get 10% CDR from masteries alone (9/0/21), and 5.89% from flat cooldown glyphs, a little more if you invest in CDR seals or Marks (though they will provide a lesser amount than the glyphs.

If you're playing Summoner's Rift, the Crest of the Ancient Golem provides a scaling mana regen and cooldown reduction bonus, which caps out at 25% at level 18.

Therefore, using flat CDR glyphs, and a 9/0/21 mastery spec, you can cap cooldown reduction (and .89% to spare! without any items at all.

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11% CDR from masteries alone? I can only achieve 9% on my side. [intelligence: +6% / sorcery: +3%]. Did I missed something? In the same way Quintessences+Glyph+mark+Seal sum up to 19.2% on my calculator (So this sum up to 28.2% /w neutral buff). Maybe I'm not uptodate? – M'vy Jul 21 '11 at 10:45
He is including Blue buff in the calculations – camiloqp Jul 21 '11 at 14:00
@M'vy - math fixed. – Raven Dreamer♦ Jul 21 '11 at 14:51

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