From the patch notes:

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Most bolt skills have been significantly increased in speed. Also, an issue with bolts not always hitting moving targets has been fixed.

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I took this to mean that bolts like Poison Shot would be faster - meaning less weapon cooldown. But it looks like it is the opposite - weapon cooldowns have increased substantially - 80% or more, from .5 to .9 for Poison shot for example, 1.5 to 2.6 for Noxious Shot.

This is a decrease in speed and so a nerf for poison rangers in particular.

Am I right or is something else happening that I don't know, being a noob? If that's right was this a nerf for PvP (something I'll never do)?

Arrows and ranged skills are not bolts. The patch notes are talking about fire, ice, and shadow bolt skills.

I wondered about that - why then did my weapon cooldowns almost double after the patch for those skills? Was it because I leveled past something, or switched to a shotgun as opposed to a crossbow?

Also, just to be picky - why would Poison Shot be treated any differently than Fire Bolt given that anyone can take any skill they want?

Note a huge speed difference between the shotty & and Xbow?

Of course, but I've changed weapons many many times and never noticed the weapon cooldown periods every varying until yesterday after the patch. I switched to shotgun earlier in the week and I can't swear I looked at the cooldown times then, but I thought they didn't change.

With the normal xbows I had a non-skill enhanced recharge time of .61 or so. With the Trigger bonus my shotgun time is .81.

So is it true that weapon type/speed (unenhanced by skills) is part of the calculation for weaspon cooldown for the shot skills?

Most shotguns are very slow. If you equip the 2 back to back and take a look at the attack speed in your character sheet. This attack speed is what most weapon attack skills are based on. For a slower weapon the cool down is much longer. The multiple of the attack speed will vary by skill.

Thanks - just my noobiness showing then. It makes much more sense that weapon cooldown is tied to weapon speed - I simply hadn't had two weapons where the speed difference was that noticable.