MWZ Crafting Cooldown Timer Reduction Costs (Essence Extraction)

| GNG News COD | Published: April 7, 2024 |

Call of Duty is introducing a Cooldown Reduction bonus for ALL Schematics in MWZ in exchange for extracted Essence. This system will allow players to drastically reduce the time between claiming Schematics like the powerful Wonder Weapons and Classified items like Mags of Holding or Golden Armor.

Essence is an in-game currency found in Modern Warfare Zombies' loot caches or earned by completing contracts, killing zombies, or selling valuable items at buy stations, to name a few methods.

We know that exfiling with 100 Essence currently reduces cooldown timers by 25 seconds. Using this knowledge we can figure out how much extracted Essence will be required to reduce cooldown timers on the longer-wait gear.

Essence	Time Reduction
100	0:00:25
500	0:02:05
1000	0:04:10
5000	0:20:50
10000	0:41:40
15000	1:02:30
20000	1:23:20
25000	1:44:10
50000	3:28:20
75000	5:12:30
100000	6:56:40

As you can see, extracting 100,000 in a single match will reduce ALL Schematic Cooldown Timers by nearly 7 hours. A decent dent in the higher timed Craftables. So, lets take a look at each category and how much each item will require extracted in Essence.

Schematic	Cooldown Timer	Required Essence
Uncommon Tool	02:00:00	28800
Ammo Mods	03:00:00	43200
Perks	03:00:00	43200
Rare Aether Tool	05:00:00	72000
Raw Aetherium Crystal	08:00:00	115200
Epic Aether Tool	10:00:00	144000
Refined Aetherium Crystal	16:00:00	230400
Legendary Aether Tool	24:00:00	345600
Wonder Weapons	48:00:00	691200
Classified	48:00:00	691200
Flawless Aetherium Crystal	72:00:00	1036800

To unlock the Flawless Aetherium Crystal you are going to need to earn over 1 million Essence, which is roughly 200 Contracts in the High Threat Zone.

It should be mentioned as well that this article was written before the introduction of the Cooldown Reduction system to Modern Warfare Zombies. It could be based on different amounts so this is a rough guide based on the information we currently have.

Once the system has been added to the game we will be posting another article detailing how it works and the most effective means of using it.

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