Ground targeting circle unavailable until global cooldown ready.

[Raestloz]

I don't agree. It could lead to situations where you think a skill is available while actually it's not, then you mash buttons trying to get it to work

[Kikosho]

I don't agree. It could lead to situations where you think a skill is available while actually it's not, then you mash buttons trying to get it to work

They can always have the ground target marker remain purple until the GCD comes up, then it can change to orange signifying it's ready to use. No need for mashing and your issue is completely negated.

[Raestloz]

They can always have the ground target marker remain purple until the GCD comes up, then it can change to orange signifying it's ready to use. No need for mashing and your issue is completely negated.

The purple marker is for "nope, you can't cast there". If your goal is to allow people to strategically place their cursor in advance, it ain't gonna help.

Perhaps if they add another color, but i really don't see how such a confusing system would benefit us, it makes you lie in wait and do nothing instead of finding other things to do (maybe reposition, or fire off one off GCD skills)

[Kikosho]

The purple marker is for "nope, you can't cast there". If your goal is to allow people to strategically place their cursor in advance, it ain't gonna help.

Perhaps if they add another color, but i really don't see how such a confusing system would benefit us, it makes you lie in wait and do nothing instead of finding other things to do (maybe reposition, or fire off one off GCD skills)

Then taking what you said, change the color to Red/Black/Magenta whatever for when Shadowflare/Freeze/Flaming Arrow are unavailable to be casted due to GCD timer. You haven't run into situations that would benefit from this which is obvious since you just said you can't see a situation that benefits from this change but there are plenty of optimizations that can be done if this change was possible. I don't agree with your point of this change "making you lie in wait and do nothing" since we'd obviously adjust our play to accomodate.

As an example, when a SMN uses Ruin II or Bio, the GCD is triggered and they then spend the next 2.5~ secs unable to do anything with a GCD skill. Under the current system, we can't even see the Shadowflare ground target until the GCD comes back up. With the change the OP wants, I would be able to position exactly where I want my Shadowflare ahead of time before the GCD comes up allowing me to fire it off that much sooner and thus wasting less time positioning the spell.