Quote Originally Posted by Gemina View Post
The first is utilizing displayed hotbars in order to monitor the cooldown timers on your abilities. The crossbar is insufficient for this since it can only display one set at a time.
You can do that, but if you don't like screen clutter, you can also put cooldowns of similar length on separate cross bars. When the one you can see comes off cooldown, you'll know that the other is also off cooldown.