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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blacksmithking" data-source="post: 3868744" data-attributes="member: 27621">An ability that can be used once per encounter is roughly the same as an ability that can be used once every 5-10 minutes. In WoW, these are abilities with a "cooldown." Rather than bother tracking seconds and minutes, it's easier to say these abilities can be used once per encounter, since most encounters don't last more than 10 rounds anyway. For example, the spell duration of bull's strength can be listed as "one encounter" instead of an arbitrary number of rounds. In an encounter model, it doesn't matter if bull's strength lasts 1 minute or ten minutes; you cast it when you need to smack someone or something really hard. After you've killed your enemies or lifted a heavy gate, your super strength isn't useful to you--it helped you through the encounter.</blockquote>