Game Mechanics Ability Timer Bar

I'm doing a tiny suggestion before I overload this forum category with the absolute unit that is the Summoner rework so here's a small bite of something else irrelevant to that

Would be nice if we had uh





Basically any ability that has a timer that shows up in chat like this should have a timer bar

Would be cool if we actually had a visual indicator instead of having to keep track of an invisible clock



I personally feel like boss bars don't really take up enough of the screen to actually be annoying even if these ones keep on showing up mid-battle but hell, add a toggle if it really is too much

Anyways that's all for the small post ok bye get ready for the flood

 

When is the flood coming.

also betting wynnexcavation is the next big thread after that so e

 

You being a part of my brainstorming on Discord does you give you special privilege over others to """guess""" what my next post will be





(It's not WynnEx, it's too big of a project for me to work on it full-time.)

 

yes please

 

Three Words: Lightbender

Spoiler

I can barely play lightbender with 3 boss bars during any given battle (enemy health, orb health+%healed, and guild bar) then you add arcane speed, purification, and fortitude. (Six bossbars is a lot of bossbars.) The issue is certain abilities (mainly purification) you don't need to actively keep track of how close they are to refreshing, since it does not matter in most circumstances. Also if you hold tab you can see all of your status effects & cooldowns.

 

The point is that you're going to take a large chunk of time (at beast a second or so, which is kinda long in the literal midst of combat) in order to locate what you need, even in Wynntils when the tiny gray timer number is at the right hand side of the screen.

 

I already have so much clutter on my screen (I play with GUI scale 4). For my lightbender, shadestepper, and currently-leveling-up trapper I really don't keep track of what abilities are on cooldown and which ones are not. What I could see is if it was condensed into one bossbar, but that's it.