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Old 05/30/07, 11:46 AM   #1
Imba
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Any cooldown mod?

I've been looking for some mod to show my cooldowns in middle of the screen. Since i'm a warrior i have to see whats going on in the area while tanking and DPS'ing too, to grab some fleeing mob or healer rapper as i like them to call. So anyway, my point is if i'm tanking i most of the times look at my action bars to see if my ability is ready or not since most of the times I'm struggling for aggro with those mean mages etc

EDIT: also some chatmod you could link me to would be nice (Ace2 ofc) since im using chatMod which is not Ace2

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Old 05/30/07, 12:02 PM   #2
Randor
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Chronometer.

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Old 05/30/07, 12:16 PM   #3
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Any good cooldown mods for trinket? I swear to god, I forget to click my Prayerbook an embarrassing amount. Being brought up atheist has its drawbacks, I guess.

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Old 05/30/07, 12:22 PM   #4
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I've been using cooldown bars 2.0 very old mod dating from before 2.0 and was only hacked to function since. I've tried a few Ace'd things and they all had various degrees of bugginess while cdb does everything I want it to do.

I haven't tried chronometer, but at least the description on wowace.com doesn't sound like what you are looking for.

e: cdb does trinkets ofcourse, but remember that some trinkets have shared cooldowns (for example zhc and xiri's gift) and it'll make a bar for each trinket. Also for trinkets, TrinketMenu (popular mod from the maker of ItemRack) - while it doesn't make a bar you can have it pop a messege in big letters over your screen when a trinket is ready.

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Old 05/30/07, 12:26 PM   #5
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I've started using Forecast (now called Hourglass) and it seems to be picking up a lot of things that all the previous timer bars missed for me. I was relogging multiple times last night, and Forecast/Hourglass picked up the time left on my Ancestral Recall

The main problem with it is configuration. There's no mouse-move functionality, and the positioning interface is very limited. Similar to Discord mods, you set the Anchor point and an offset from that

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Old 05/30/07, 12:38 PM   #6
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Not every mod has to use Ace tbh. :P
I tried some random Ace chatmod, but found it lacking and using way too much resources. Ended up using CleanChat and something I wrote myself just for the tweaks I wanted. If you want I can hook you up with that.

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Old 05/30/07, 12:38 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by Impervious View Post
I've started using Forecast (now called Hourglass) and it seems to be picking up a lot of things that all the previous timer bars missed for me. I was relogging multiple times last night, and Forecast/Hourglass picked up the time left on my Ancestral Recall

The main problem with it is configuration. There's no mouse-move functionality, and the positioning interface is very limited. Similar to Discord mods, you set the Anchor point and an offset from that
shoosh! discord was ownage... there is nothing, I MEAN NOTHING to replace all of the good old DAB functions, too bad their creator left without saying goodbye and btw you could move anything to anywhere with your mouse, just had to unlock stuff.

regarding the topic: I tryed cooldownbar, i tryed it and it seemed really buggy for me... :S ill try it again with my new reworked UI

EDIT: Chronometer is totally not what im looking for, im looking for adodn to show my ability cooldowns, not durations of spells like warstomp or for example moonfire... :S

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Old 05/30/07, 12:42 PM   #8
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cooldowncount (ace) will put nice numbers on your bars which makes it much easier to see when something is available.
CooldownTimers2 (ace) sounds like it does what you want with bars.
Hourglass (ace) Same type of thing.


-edit bah down side of opening all new threads that look interesting and then reading them over the morning is when I posted this there weren't any other replies.

Chronometer tracks your debuffs like demo/thunder clap/sunder on your target. While useful it doesn't sound like what you want.

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Old 05/30/07, 12:50 PM   #9
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I use the Ace mod "cooldown." Not fancy, but works. Only bug is that timers replicate themselves when you zone (I guess that might be annoying for some, but my longest timer is 8 minutes).


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Old 05/30/07, 12:58 PM   #10
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I have been using chronometer in addition to cooldowntimers2 and it's been doing what you're looking for. I'm still actively seeking a mod which has both of these features all in one, but haven't found it yet.

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Old 05/30/07, 1:01 PM   #11
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The hourglass author has anchors and dragging on his todo list. As it is now you can reposition the addon by editing x and y offset in the LUA file and doing /console reloadui. Once you have them positioned it's not too bad.

Scaling and skinning are not in but every new feature increases memory usage so maybe less is better.


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Old 05/30/07, 1:07 PM   #12
Imba
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Originally Posted by Arawethion View Post
I use the Ace mod "cooldown." Not fancy, but works. Only bug is that timers replicate themselves when you zone (I guess that might be annoying for some, but my longest timer is 8 minutes).

That addon is the addon i was looking for, used it before, now if I could just figure out how do you configure it :S

I found how to move it, but i still want when i moved to remove the Minimap icon and i want to add scale and alpha to the bars..

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Old 05/30/07, 1:51 PM   #13
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Anyone know if the addon has the ability to send a message to SCT when cooldowns expire? I would love that for arenas when I'm struggling to kite someone and I don't even realize that my frost nova is now available to me.

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Old 05/30/07, 2:00 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Harem View Post
Anyone know if the addon has the ability to send a message to SCT when cooldowns expire? I would love that for arenas when I'm struggling to kite someone and I don't even realize that my frost nova is now available to me.
If its just cooldowns you want then maybe you want "MikScrollingBattleText" together with MSBTCooldowns

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Old 05/30/07, 2:00 PM   #15
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Originally Posted by Harem View Post
Anyone know if the addon has the ability to send a message to SCT when cooldowns expire? I would love that for arenas when I'm struggling to kite someone and I don't even realize that my frost nova is now available to me.
cooldown bars 2.0 can do this as well as probably any other cooldown bar mod.

e: it doesn't send a messege to SCT pre se, but it'll say that this or that cooldown is finished in big letters in the middle of your screen or wherever else you want.

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