So I only just noticed (though I suspected this was the case earlier) that once you have used one shout you have to wait for that particular shout to recharge completely before you can use any other shout, so if I use the 'Storm' shout I have to wait three hundred seconds before I can use a shout with a recharge time of five seconds. This is ridiculous.

Not a bug.

No, its not.

The Storm Shout kills everything in sight, is ridiculously overpowered, and quite honestly should only be able to be used once a month or only during storms.

There is also this handy fuction called 'Wait' that TES has implemented some time back... try that

Thats because you can only shout 300 seconds after storm call. Not a bug, the recharge is for each specific shout.

Unfortunately for Op this is not a bug... All shouts share the same downtime bar. So you have to wait for the cooldown period to end before using another shout. Its to prevent players chaining shouts like spells.

Like everyone else on every forum page you seem to misread the topic, I know I have to wait three hundred seconds for STORM to regenerate BUT I also have to wait three hundred seconds to be able to use any other shout when I have used Storm, I should just have to wait the amount of time that particular shout takes to regenerate; the bug is as follow: I use a shout which has say a thirty second regenrate period, I then switch to a shout which has a five second regenerate period and still have to wait thirty seconds.

Edit: if this is not a bug it is pretty stupid, I should be able to use Unrelenting Force thirty seconds after I have used Storm as Unrelenting Force has a thirty second downtime period.

You wait for the cooldown and fire off a different shout only to have to wait 300 seconds again?

Then yes, that is a bug.

But, if you have to wait 300 secs after Storm... to use another shout... then its operating exactly as its supposed to.

I had something similar happen when I first got Call of Valor.

I fixed it by unequipping the power, removing it from my favorites, and then using a different shout.

Try that?

How is that stupid? You could use Storm, switch to a shout with a 15 second cool down time, use that, wait 15 seconds then switch back to Storm. That would be an exploit.

They did this for that reason.

thats not a bug thats so shouts are not overpowered
there are 50 shouts if there was a cooldown timer on all of them you would never really have to wait

Like i said previously it to prevent chaining of shouts like spells.

Everyone seems to have answered you, think of it like this

there are like 20 different shouts, If each one had a separate cool down, I could use storm, the force, then fire, then ice, then summon etc etc
why even bother using a weapon or spells then?