Can we get actual timers on our action recasts?

If you look in the menu when you have an action on cooldown there is an actual timer like 1m or 20s.

This would be really helpful to have on our actual skills on the hotbar. I hate when long recast skills like hallowed ground have a few seconds left on the recast but it looks like it is ready because the recast animation is so tiny you can't see it so you press it, nothing happens and you die.

Yeah would be nice!
That always happen to me when I play summoner. Dreadwyrm trance, raging strikes, tri-disaster. Clicking contagion and keep doing other cool attacks, and then when bio 1 is at like 3 seconds left I'm all like "hey you bio why are you expiring already?" and I realise that contagion was never casted because i used it too early.

They had them in the beta. I'm not really sure why they decided to remove them honestly.

I'm in favor of this. While I know the CD time of my skills, I rather see the remaining time in numbers at a glance than having to think what 2/3 of 180 seconds is.

I use this macro:

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Soothe thy bosom! I need time for cooldowns!
Raging Strikes: <recast.Raging Strikes>
Quelling Strikes: <recast.Quelling Strikes>
Blood for Blood: <recast.Blood for Blood>
Hawk's Eye: <recast.Hawk's Eye>
Barrage: <recast.Barrage>
Internal Release: <recast.Internal Release>
Battle Voice: <recast.Battle Voice>

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It looks like this:
http://i.imgur.com/Obx8sxu.png

You can use it with /echo, then only you will see the timers.

Not what you want, but might help :D

It's less about knowing the recast and more about knowing you have a skill available when you need it. If there's a timer it's a lot clearer that it is still on cooldown than with the current animation.

Say a tank buster is coming, If I look at sentinel and it looks ready I'm going to press it. Then nothing happens cause actually it had 3 seconds left on the cooldown that I couldn't see because of the bad recast display. Tank buster hits me, I die.

In this scenario I wouldn't have had time to use a recast macro and check that it's available, I just need to know from looking at it and react. If I could see that it has 3 seconds left from looking at it, I could react to that and use rampart instead.

I'm actually surprised they haven't had an option for this yet, it's massively helpful to see what the actual time left for the cooldowns is.

most likely PS3 limitations, I blame everything not in the game on them like Yoshi P does

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Originally Posted by Ruri

most likely PS3 limitations, I blame everything not in the game on them like Yoshi P does

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Don't forget about server data limitations. Our number 2 excuse! xD

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Originally Posted by StrejdaTom

Don't forget about server data limitations. Our number 2 excuse! xD

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Yes but I can't believe in this day there are still data server limitations for paid mmo's. But it is what it is.

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Originally Posted by StrejdaTom

Don't forget about server data limitations. Our number 2 excuse! xD

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If everyone accesses their cooldown timers at the same time, it would crash the server :P

Game launched in September 2013. 6 months later the Add-on API I was supposed to be launched. it's now been 22 months since lunch and still no add on API. Now that my defense is out of the way, you can get your recast timers through the 3rd party program called ACT via plugin called spell timers.

Im suprised we havent had many options for our UI tbh. I and countless others have suggested ui changes that would improve the performance and fluidity but to no avail.

We need complete control of our ui SE.

Many players have suggested countless improvements, please consider as the ui is very basic with very limited options, timers as the op suggested should be ingame long ago or a very obvious color change that doesnt revert until its ready not a clock style that leads to confusion, as it stands now its not good enough.

O.O

Every aspect of the ui needs many more player customization options.