In Game DoT Tracker

[Zer0mr]

You can use the /echo (or just /e) command to do display a text only you can see. I don't know if the sounds effects work with it, though.

Came here to say this. /echo works anywhere and is a different color than the /tell.

Edit: Also note that there is no sound with /echo. It only works in party with <se.2>

[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.

[Camate]

Came here to say this. /echo works anywhere and is a different color than the /tell.

Edit: Also note that there is no sound with /echo. It only works in party with <se.2>

Greetings,

In patch 2.1 the various sound effects that can be played by entering the <se.1>-<se.16> text commands will work with “/echo” as well as alliance chat.

[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?

[Kaelon79]

Greetings,

In patch 2.1 the various sound effects that can be played by entering the &lt;se.1&gt;-&lt;se.16&gt; text commands will work with “/echo” as well as alliance chat.

You still can't run more than 1 macro at a time with echo or other countdowns because a 2nd macro cancels the counter on the first and last I checked classes have more than 1 dot.

[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.