SE, please let us communicate the cooldown on skills outside of additional actions.

[Volene]

Title. I love being able to communicate cooldowns, and the fact that the feature is already in the game for additional PvP actions shows that it's possible, the only problem is that the skills we can use it for are, ironically, the ones our team doesn't need to know about.

Nobody cares when your Enliven/Sprint/Concentrate is going to be ready. Arguably the only one of those that's useful is for a healer to say Muse is on cooldown, but they already have the "MP at x%" command which they generally won't use before they've used all the tools they had to recover MP. Letting your team know that Purify was on cooldown was extremely useful in Heavensward, but now that you can't use it on other people, it serves barely any purpose other than an FYI that someone will die while the healer is being CC'd.

No, what we really need is for this feature to be expanded to actions that aren't part of the additional PvP actions, but that would actually be useful to communicate. The biggest ones I can think of are Battlefield March/Report for BRD/MCH - our healer needs to know when they're out of MP and it's still on cooldown, and if it's coming up in the next 10 seconds or not before a minute and a half. Since I only play Bard, I don't know much about cooldowns that other classes might want to communicate, but I'm sure DRKs would appreciate being able to tell their party that the Blackest Night is on cooldown. Paladins could use the same with Hallowed Ground, with "Hallowed Ground not ready!" being used as a "I need heals here, I can't Hallowed" message to their healer. As co-DPS to Dragoons, I know I'd love a "Battle Litany ready!" command so that they could let me know when their burst phase is ready and I can line up my own with theirs. The same could be done for Monks with "Riddle of Fire ready!", or for Black Mages with "Polyglot ready!". And lastly, I'm sure healers would appreciate something like that as well so their team can know to play more defensively, for example with "Benediction ready in 110s" if the White Mage was forced to use it with no lilies.

In short, I think the ability to communicate cooldowns is great, but as of now it's limited to the additional PvP actions which very rarely need to be communicated in the first place. Please work on expanding it to actions outside of that for every job (or give chat back thanks). Feel free to weigh in with other actions which you think could use this feature, like I said I don't play most classes so I could definitely use the help.

Thank you!

[KusoWat]

Would be simply enough. Just have a function that if you hit an ability while it's on CD, it instead displays the chat message with % remaining.

The better alternative would be to add additional buttons specific to each job to says "X ability is ready" or "X ability is Y% recharged".

The best alternative is to just allow us to make our own custom macros like we could before and lift these asinine chat restrictions.

[Elleia]

I absolutely agree. I tend to use Battlefield March on cooldown, so long as my healer will receive the full amount of MP restoration from it each time. However I've run into instances where it's on cooldown and my healer starts spamming their MP percentage and I can't tell them how long until I can use it again.

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

Definitely backing this one up! More often than not, I've already used report to keep my healer sustained and it's not even halfway off cooldown when they really start needing it. I absolutely despise quick chat, but this is information I really need to convey in those crucial moments.

While I'm on the subject, Report only restoring 25% MP is simply not enough to warrant a 2 minute cooldown. (Especially knowing it used to be able to be enhanced to 40%)