GCD Timers WTH!

So, up all night waiting for the patch to be implemented, and "YAY! Gears of Change!"... Log into the game and OH... MY... GOD!

Don't get me wrong the timers are a good idea... But seriously, what on earth is that hideous white circle crap in every action key pretty much... So, after smacking on a target dummy for 5-10 minutes to see if I could possibly get used to it... Turns out, its so god damn hideous I want to revert back the normal pre-patch settings. looking through all the options to find its a hard-implementation. GG thank you for 1 hideous GCD timer!

Next time when you implement something massively changing in the way of action bars/action keys may be a good idea to actually add the option for not having a disgusting and hideous timer scattered all the way through the action keys.

http://imgur.com/BUj7RPV (ps. thats on a relatively low level character as well, god knows what it would be like on higher character... I didnt wait to find out)

Agreed, the timers should only be for abilities with 30s+ cooldowns.

Do. Not. Want. I haven't even been in game yet & I already have concerns. Reminds me of Dragon Age.

I like them? /shrug

I actually came to the forums hoping someone knew what setting to toggle to change this. If there's not a toggle, it seriously needs to be added. The circle thing makes it almost impossible to tell when my conditional skills have proc'd. That, and they're... pretty ugly. I wonder what the reasoning was for adding this...

After having tested it out on a few jobs I can say that the most painful of all jobs to play with the hotbar change is MNK. Dear Devs, please add a toggle to remove the bright white circle.

I haven't get into the game to test this yet but I'd imagine by the screenshots that the newly introduced timer number are increasingly hard to read against such bright background? They really need to make that optional as much as the numbers, because for any use having them both on must be suffering.

Indeed, while the timers in the bottom corners of abilities are okay-ish (still would prefer the number to be bigger and centered on the icon), the semi-transparent white circles are obnoxious. Suddenly, all my hotbars are a mass of white circles and I can hardly see the icons of the abilities underneath. For me, it's not only confusing, at least for now, but also plain ugly-looking. And the worst part is that there's no option to turn this new feature off :( Hopefully, SE will hear our complaints and at least give us an option to disable the circles. They already added the option to disable timers, so why not the circles? :(

It's not too bad on certain jobs (like SCH & WHM) but for others it will be hellish. I know that my PVP bar annoys me with slowly building skills so dark that it's not that easy to decipher them.

I don't like those circles too....why have you changed that SE? :s