Talk:Heimerdinger/@comment-5781707-20140301064758/@comment-9731112-20140302203817

The beam will charge in 10 seconds without auto-attacks but is no longer affected cooldown reduction. At max rank, it will take 8.75 seconds to fully charge with auto-attacks. Generally this is an early game buff that also reduces the potential power of the beam attacks late game. But this also helps his itemization, he is not forced into buying cdr all the time for his turrets because they simply scaled far too much with it.