In Game DoT Tracker

[Shirai]

Using macros is bad for everything but off GCD skills.

Also, they fixed it so all your personal debuffs are on the left of the debuff line(s) for the enemy.

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This, and another trick I personally use is counting the GL rotations after each application.

[Genesiser]

Using macros is bad for everything but off GCD skills.

Also, they fixed it so all your personal debuffs are on the left of the debuff line(s) for the enemy.

I understand macros aren't the best way to go about using skills and I also know that your debuffs are on the left along with a green counter, however there are lots of people that are terrible at keeping their dots up and I was just trying to think of a way to make it easier for people to keep them up.

Anyway, I tried different setups and the best I could come up without having a noise (since you can't send tells to yourself or have the game play a noise with a /echo) is just make your echo chat color something that really stands out. Another thing you could do is when you are in a dungeon, make the chat window have large font so it sticks out when the echo goes off.

[Lemon8or]

I thought about this a while back on my warrior to rotate defensive CD but the macro stops working if you use a second one so unless you only plan to use 1 DoT like Demolish. It's best to just look at the left side of the target bar. I have it situated right above my own buff bar so one glance gives me an idea of how my timers are doing.

[Phafi]

On the topic of <se.1> and such, can we get a <call> feature that's really loud like in XI, but limit it to like once every 5minutes in the event of someone being in your party being afk when the duty finder pops up and the like?

[AmandaHuggenkiss]

On the topic of <se.1> and such, can we get a <call> feature that's really loud like in XI, but limit it to like once every 5minutes in the event of someone being in your party being afk when the duty finder pops up and the like?

<se.1> very quiet
<se.1><se.1> quiet
<se.1><se.1><se.1> better
<se.1><se.1><se.1><se.1> again louder you see where this is going?

[Vire]

Yeah thats pretty much a terrible solution for dot tracking. Any class with more then one dot can't use that as well as there are fights where you want to use the echo macros to track boss mechanics like on twin. SE themselves need to do a better job and give us tools to help us track them better.


Its kinda silly that such a half baked work around is being told to people like its a solution by the community team instead of saying yeah we know its bad and we are giving your feedback to the ui team about it.