Why have Incarnate switch cooling times?

[MsSmart]

I understand the current mechanic if you are in a team and if anybody is fighting, you can't switch... this seems dumb too me

If you want to switch between say a destiny ageless to say barrier, you really can't do it inside the mission, but why? You already have the abilities, its like I am using my right hand pistol, so I can't switch to my left hand pistol until the fight is done, seems utterly dumb to me.

When I am by myself and not in a fight, there is no cool time timer to let me know, its ok, you can switch now.

 

But frankly, why the cooldown time? seems to me, stopping during a fight, maybe move away and switch to another incarnate power version should be allowed, its like getting away from the fight to reload your pistol or to draw a backup weapon.

 

This is only a query, trying to understand the why in a practical sense.

[Maagic]

probably a PVP exploit prevention or something

[Chance Jackson]

It's very frustrating as is what happens when you switch builds(the game treats it as if you have just used all your abilities)

[Andreah]

Because if it weren't like that, it would be possible to exploit it massively. Most good intentioned people wouldn't, but enough would that it's one of those nice things we can't have.

[srmalloy]

22 hours ago, MsSmart said:

You already have the abilities, its like I am using my right hand pistol, so I can't switch to my left hand pistol until the fight is done, seems utterly dumb to me.

Pop your Ageless, one second later switch to and pop your Clarion, then one second later switch to and pop your Barrier. Now you've got all the bonuses from both Ageless and Ciarion, with two minutes of Barrier running. 

[biostem]

7 minutes ago, srmalloy said:

Pop your Ageless, one second later switch to and pop your Clarion, then one second later switch to and pop your Barrier. Now you've got all the bonuses from both Ageless and Ciarion, with two minutes of Barrier running. 

Additionally, and unlike all other powersets or pools, you can eventually craft and have access to every single incarnate ability...

Edited 16 hours ago by biostem

[Major_Decoy]

They could treat it like switching builds: You have to wait one minute between switching builds and all of your powers need to fully recharge right after switching.

[tidge]

It would be ripe for explotation. It would be the same for fast-swapping builds without incarnates.