Is this cheating?

[Estellios]

This is absolutely not cheating. When you start instanced content, your abilities cooldowns should be refreshed. End of conversation. Starting a leve and abandoning it to reset the cooldowns is merely a workaround for the bad design of the instanced content.

If cooldowns can be refreshed before leves (instanced content) than they should be automatically refreshed before Ifrit, Gardua, Cutter's Cry, etc (also instanced content).

Exactly this and what Brannigan said. We are learning the fight and waiting 15 minutes to try again just because abilities are down blows and its even worse when you have damaged gear as changing to repair it will reset the timer anyways.

Please devs, just reset ability timers upon entering any kind of instance.