GCD Timers WTH!

[JocelynFae]

I would really, really like an option to turn the cooldown display back to the way it was. If I came across cooldown displays like this in a new game I was trying out, I wouldn't play it. I'm heavily invested in FFXIV because I've been playing since ARR's launch, so I'm very torn. I cannot see my skills as well, its hard to tell if there has been a proc'd Cure 2 on my WHM, plus its very "frantic" feeling and visually unappealing to me. I hope they give us an option to turn it off.

[Adanedar]

Please, let us remove the circle, I hate how it looks and it makes it hard for me to see what abilities are on cooldown.

[Superb]

I came here to make this exact thread lol. Yea, I would love an option to disable this.

[AzraelX]

omg we can't disable the circle? WTH

[Niwashi]

That ugly white circle makes it hard to see the icon. It makes it hard to see procs. It's icky. Make it go away.

We'd asked for giving us the actual countdown for non-GCD skills, (just like they already do within the tooltips we get from the Actions and Traits window, where it's useless as we won't have that window up during combat). Instead they give us big white circles around the existing clock-swipe. Why?

And why, when they finally (sort of) put the countdown there, do they deliberately make it useless and unreadable. Display it like they already do in Actions & Traits, over the entire icon so we can actually see what it says (but just for off-GCD skills, leave GCD skills the way they were before).

[Juicyjoo]

But the thing is, adding an option to disable the timers is a dick move. Like you would want to disable the timers? The timers is a nice feature, the white horrible and hideous circle which are scattered all over the screen which makes it hard to notice combos, proc's, and well, pretty much impossible to actually see any of your actions bars. Until this is sorted, I will refuse to even play this game... A game which was 11/10 in rating in my opinion just went to 1/10 in a matter of seconds! Every other MMO in history added the option to alter the cooldown system when they implemented a new change. WOW, Rift, SW:TOR, EQ2 etc etc etc!

[GrandmastrGrant]

If you could just give us an option to toggle off the white circles, that would be great. It's hard to see the icon underneath.

[CouchOne]

Another vote for terrible. My crossbar just looks like a mass of white circle crap.

Just give us the option to change it back and everyone can be happy.

[alsims2007]

I'll be honest and say they work for identifying when a skill is or isn't available. The problem is that it completly blocks out the skill and makes it difficult to identify. At least give us the option to adjust the transparency. I can see me using it but good luck playing on a job that isn't muscle memory

[Shurrikhan]

Would be great to have the choice of:

1. Just numbers
2. Numbers (on CDs) and circles on CDs (anything with a recast separate from GCD).
3. Numbers (on CDs) and circles on all recasts.

+ Number text size
+ Adjustable transparency
+ Adjustable color
^ Separately for CDs and weaponskills