To ppl who don't realize the whole thing bout cooldown on The guns.....
Right now, Dante's guns in the "story" point of view are supposed to be really strong,like at the first Vergil fight in DMC3 u see Dante shooting like 4 bullets at vergil, he goes to the trouble to block em with Yamato and then considers it 'worth it' to slash em back at Dante, who's given enough of a damn bout them to slice them back in half.......
now Consider Nero's gun, Blue Rose, we saw generally it's a really weakass gun,but at the Charged versions,they're strong enough to knock Dante off his feet and the third level of Charge is like strong enough as like 10 slashes from his Red Queen or so........
This tells us,according to the story, Ebony and Ivory are considered to be strong....I mean,consider the fact that they're the only Iconic weps Dante has throughout all 4 DMC games so far....
Further Examples include stuff like Dante killing that Hell demon with one headshot after the first mission in DMC3.....Jackpot shots.......Dante being able to imbue the shots with his Devil-arm/Inner demonic magic energy or w/e.....Dante dismantling a whole moving armor-suit with just one shot.....Dante's Description in DMC3 was also something like 'Crushes his enemies with his Dual handguns Ebony and Ivory and his inherited sword Rebellion'
And also,consider the fact that Guns have their own style in DMC3 and DMC4 mirroring Swordmaster....meaning there's supposed to be equal emphasis on guns and devil arms while playing,or at least that's what the devs intended.....but putting a reload time or something on Ebony and Ivory or any other gun for that matter doesn't appeal to ppl cuz they think it stops em from feeling 'awesome'.......
But gameplay-wise,it takes forever to kill something with just guns...they don't feel like that much dmg or You don't feel that epic shooting something in the game as u do watching dante one-shot something with his guns....
So the Cooldown would be a great way to Balance the guns and make them have a decent amount of power to call them 'Dante's Guns' at the same time......so u don't have to spam them to feel awesome,just by shooting them every now and then at strategic moments,like when the boss is out of ur reach and u wanna put ur gun on CD now for efficient use of weps....you feel E&I being that damn awesome