Option to Remove the Circle Image on Skill CD

There's a circle appearing when your skills are on cooldown now. Any way to remove it?

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Originally Posted by Zephyranthes

There's a circle appearing when your skills are on cooldown now. Any way to remove it?

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The circle was a visual improvement to help people with vision issues see the cooldown timer on their skills better. There is no way to remove it.

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Originally Posted by Malzian

The circle was a visual improvement to help people with vision issues see the cooldown timer on their skills better. There is no way to remove it.

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I find it obnoxious, so not much of an improvement to me.

Additional Edit: I find it extremely useful for things like Hallowed Ground. but when there's one on literally. Every. Skill. It makes my eyes shake a bit just looking at it. It feels less organized and more chaotic.

I'd love it purely on long-cd's, but on short ones? not so much.

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Originally Posted by Malzian

The circle was a visual improvement to help people with vision issues see the cooldown timer on their skills better. There is no way to remove it.

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No offense to those that have eye problems.

I have no vision issues and I find this annoying on skills with short CD as the above poster said. The constant change of display every 2 seconds strains my eyes more.

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Originally Posted by Eidolon

I find it obnoxious, so not much of an improvement to me.

Additional Edit: I find it extremely useful for things like Hallowed Ground. but when there's one on literally. Every. Skill. It makes my eyes shake a bit just looking at it. It feels less organized and more chaotic.

I'd love it purely on long-cd's, but on short ones? not so much.

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Originally Posted by Zephyranthes

No offense to those that have eye problems.

I have no vision issues and I find this annoying on skills with short CD as the above poster said. The constant change of display every 2 seconds strains my eyes more.

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Sadly it's just the way it is, maybe the devs can put in the option for it later, but for now you're going to have to deal with it. Sorry if it causes you issues, but that's really all there is to be said about it.

I have vision issues and am curious to see how well this plays out. But I'm also aware many people do not have vision issues, so it should have been an option.

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Originally Posted by OlyverW

you can disable it

Character config -> hotbar settings -> uncheck display recast times

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Oh, you're right, I didn't even see this in the patch notes... as a lot of people didn't, I'm sure. Well... there you go then.

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A recast timer for actions and items will be displayed.
For Windows, Mac, and PlayStation®4, this option can be enabled or disabled under the Display tab of Hotbar Settings in the Character Configuration interface.
For PlayStation®3, this option can be enabled or disabled under the Cross tab of Hotbar Settings in the Character Configuration interface.

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I remember them saying that just not sure the way i showed actually removes it that was why i deleted my post i will try and figure it out

Please, this thread so much.
Also make the autoattack above Enemy's hp removable. It blocks vision on buffs, and I find the default of the hud very comfortable. Just trying to guess if I can throw Geirskogul is not fun.

except the onption to disable the circle display doesn't work. At all.


edit : actually it doesn't do that at all. All this option does is display a little countdown in the bottom left corner of the skill icon showing how much time there is left until it's ready

I never look at my skill bars, except for long cool downs. Short ones are ignored cuz normally it's on muscle memory anyways.

Personally I like it. I'm going to need to find the option in the settings where I can put the number more visibly on the button.

On a separate note, has anyone figured out what the macro setting is for placing aoe on target?

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Originally Posted by Kaurie

On a separate note, has anyone figured out what the macro setting is for placing aoe on target?

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/waymark A/B/C <target >

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Originally Posted by Itseotle

/waymark A/B/C <target >

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so for shadowflare it would just be,

/ac Shadowflare <t>

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Seems so obvious now, heh

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Originally Posted by Critical-Limit

I never look at my skill bars, except for long cool downs. Short ones are ignored cuz normally it's on muscle memory anyways.

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This. Honestly I don't have vision issues but I really like it - I think it makes it a lot more clear as to what is on cool down, and what isn't. My best friend didn't even notice it until I pointed it out. lol

CD timer are so small amd cornered :( that one has to wonder why ? big numbers is all wanted...i dont care about icons , u can gray out the skill and put a number in the middle so i can see with a glance how many seconds left....

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Originally Posted by Kaurie

so for shadowflare it would just be,

/ac Shadowflare <t>

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Seems so obvious now, heh

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yup. works just fine

I like the recast time numbers, but the white "clocks" on top of every ability makes the action bars look really messy. I wish there was an option to turn of the white animations and just keep the numbers.

The circle is really annoying and the numbers are too small to be useful.

Its quite annoying

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Originally Posted by Malzian

The circle was a visual improvement to help people with vision issues see the cooldown timer on their skills better. There is no way to remove it.

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It's not an improvement though as it obstructs the hotbar icons. Unless I make my hotter absolutely massive.

So yeah I was going to create this thread but saw someone already has.

I also would like to turn them off. The recast timers however are sweet.

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Originally Posted by Dzian

It's not an improvement though as it obstructs the hotbar icons. Unless I make my hotter absolutely massive.

So yeah I was going to create this thread but saw someone already has.

I also would like to turn them off. The recast timers however are sweet.

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Okay, fine... let me rephrase... it was a visual alteration to help people with vision issues.

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Originally Posted by Malzian

Okay, fine... let me rephrase... it was a visual alteration to help people with vision issues.

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as someone with color sight deficiency... it makes visibility worse on top of being incredible annoying and distracting. that there is no option to turn this off is mind boggling

I really hope we get an option to turn the display back to the way it was.

Looks so awful when ½ of skills on screen is showing circles in them.

I'll have four circles running on my screen only by using Ninjutsu. :(

Mainly not a fan of this circle cd thing on the gcd skills, like spells and weaponskills, it makes the hotbar look cluttered and even makes the actual skills kinda hard to see to me.

/shrug

I like it

I like that you are now told the amount of seconds of cooldown replacing the MP/TP cost when cooling down.

I hate the circles sooooo distracting . should let you remove if you want to

Make it optional please. It's distracting for those who don't like it. The option to turn off the white "clock" timers and the numbers separately will make everyone happy. Please SE forward this feedback.

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Originally Posted by IsiDash

as someone with color sight deficiency... it makes visibility worse on top of being incredible annoying and distracting. that there is no option to turn this off is mind boggling

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Okay, how about

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Originally Posted by Malzian

Okay, fine... let me rephrase... it was a visual alteration with the intent to to help people with vision issues.

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lmao

I strongly dislike the new "white circle" look.

Liked the OP's post to show support and I suggest you all do the same.

Just adding in my vote for an old layout option.

The circle on the skill icons do make my bars look very busy. On one hand, I have used timer addons in games such as WoW, EQ2 & WAR, so I am somewhat used to it.

I am perfectly fine with a feature to disable it, if one so chooses.

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Originally Posted by Rose-Wild

The circle is really annoying and the numbers are too small to be useful.

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This. I despise the changes and really wish I could turn them all off and go back to the way they were pre-3.2. Why in Halone's name were these not OPTIONS?! How does SE think it's a good idea to cram UI changes down everyone's throats unilaterally?

I actually like the circles, it definitely helps me to keep track of cooldowns at a glance, and my vision is pretty much perfect. I would've liked the numbers to be a bit bigger and centered on the icon, but it's not a major thing really.

Signing. The circles are more of a nuisance than helpful for me.

Agreed. Circles are bad.

The circle bar doesn't flash when the skill/ability ready. That makes me feel weird...

This new change suuuucks.

Agreed. Very annoying, as I just got used to the pre 3.2 look!