So out of sheer frustration I timed how long it takes you to actually rez, instead of the respawn timer on screen.

By the time you actually see it pop up after the death animation finishes (you know, time when you are actually already dead and cannot do anything) its already been 4 seconds. By the time the animation is done for resurrecting its another 5 or so(more time when you are for all intents and purposes dead and cannot do anything).

In such a fast paced mode like CC why are we spending so much time waiting to be ressed, or why can't they have the timer start when our health reaches zero, and end when we can actually control our character again? Is this just developer ego? They don't want us to miss their oh so special animations that after a while we have seen literally hundreds of times already?