Sivn Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Changed my mind after longer play time. Its horrid. Blindingly horrid. Especially if you are looking at your hotbars looking for procced abilites. Horrid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
menacegb Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 have to say I don't like the new way. I prefer the old way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katohan Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Protip: Memorize your cooldowns so you dont have to constantly stare at the action bars. LOL, "protip" so are you talking about pve or pvp? because for pvp your advice is just silly, you dont follow rotation in pvp where fight can change in one second Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XplaguesX Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 i honestly haaaaaaate the new cooldown effect. like i dont even want to play anymore sorc was fine, becuase you always have a pool of force. but playin my jugg or op was horrible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigitalDreamz Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Any reason why they changed it to begin with? Was it not working properly or what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meldwyn Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Any reason why they changed it to begin with? Was it not working properly or what? That's the million dollar question. I scour these forums often, but I can't remember one thread that had any interest concerning the hotbar GCD being broken??? Where this came from and from whom is beyond me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xehoz Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Any reason why they changed it to begin with? Was it not working properly or what? Misdirection, is my guess. While people complain about this 'feature' that annoys 99% of the userbase in some way, people won't complain about other things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thedog Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I absolutely hate the new flashing. It has to be changed back, or us given an option to turn it off. I may actually stop playing, which before today was unthinkable to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tirfin Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Any reason why they changed it to begin with? Was it not working properly or what? Because many people have been complaining on the forums about how awful the hotbar GCD and CD animation was. In the previous iteration a large group were complaining that they could not tell when the GCD would end because all of the available skills were lit up under the animation and the animation itself was dark. Now they are complaining that they can't see the available skills during cooldown and the animation is too bright. Rather amusing to watch actually... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xehoz Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Rather amusing to watch actually... that Bioware can't use common sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katohan Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Well it doesnt even need any animations. Black for cooldown and normal colors for active skills. Fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tirfin Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 That's the million dollar question. I scour these forums often, but I can't remember one thread that had any interest concerning the hotbar GCD being broken??? Where this came from and from whom is beyond me... http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=193383&highlight=hotbar+global+cooldown That thread hit 101 and they made another. Took me like one minute to find. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rife Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 its utter crap. and the way the entire ui flashes at the end of the GCD is retarded, if i wanted to watch a light show i would buy tickets to one.. put it back to how it was at launch and go fix a real bug. like my companions teling me they failed a mission when they didnt thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ztee Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 why cant we just have the option to enable numbers ticking down .... sigh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zebidia Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 (edited) Who is the misguided fool they have doing any of the UI stuff in this game? Amateur hour each time they "fix" it. Its simple, Darken stuff that you cant use at the moment with the cascade going down it, then when its ready it comes back to normal brightness, simple. No flashes saying cooldowns over, no bright box around anything, just dull with cascade for not ready bright and shiny for ready. Edited February 7, 2012 by Zebidia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Libertine Posted February 7, 2012 Author Share Posted February 7, 2012 Protip: Memorize your cooldowns so you dont have to constantly stare at the action bars. protip: try that in PvP in see how far your static rotation gets you. also this doesnt help with proc-based abilities or those that have certain prerequisites such as railshot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clemsonalum Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Meh don't see what all the fuss is about really. People crying to cry. Typical of these boards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meldwyn Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 http://www.swtor.com/community/showthread.php?t=193383&highlight=hotbar+global+cooldown That thread hit 101 and they made another. Took me like one minute to find. I only searched for 59 seconds... dang it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eadnams Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 Looking at the video, am I wrong in saying that it looks like: Cool-down = coloured bar then flashes when completeUnavailable due to range/power = darkenedAvailable = regular icon If this is the behaviour, whats wrong with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegamal Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 doesn't really look that bad to me, although I didn't have a problem with the last version either. I haven't played with it yet, so my impressions may change once I have. I have to agree with this. I see how it could annoy some, but it doesn't seem like as big an issue as everyone is making it seem. That opinion could change once I actually log in, though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Libertine Posted February 7, 2012 Author Share Posted February 7, 2012 Looking at the video, am I wrong in saying that it looks like: Cool-down = coloured bar then flashes when complete Unavailable due to range/power = darkened Available = regular icon If this is the behaviour, whats wrong with it? almost Unavailable due to range/power = darkened its also darkened during global cooldown and switches back to the regular icon when global cooldown finishes and it flashes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CFourPO Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 That's the million dollar question. I scour these forums often, but I can't remember one thread that had any interest concerning the hotbar GCD being broken??? Where this came from and from whom is beyond me... I'm with you. People, including me commented about how hard it was to see the LONG cooldowns. The global was not an issue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eadnams Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 almost its also darkened during global cooldown and switches back to the regular icon when global cooldown finishes and it flashes. Ah, Not too bad, but I'd like to suggest to BW to do it my way Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucasomega Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 I really hope cooldown options are included as part of the UI update for 1.2, but somehow I doubt they will give us the option to customize it to our liking. The new effects are an eyesore and counter productive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reianime Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 (edited) I took a vid of mine too cus i thought it was a bug. It's horrible. I made a vid too cus i thought it was a bug. Edited February 7, 2012 by reianime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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