Ability timers for skills coming with U30?

Seraphayel

Another exciting change coming is the addition of ability timers to our action bars. Now you will be able to see the length of time left on a buff provided by one of your skills, without the need for addons if you’re on PC.

From the UESP preview of Blackwood. If this is true for console players it’s a VERY HUGE change and helps so much with the lacking UI.

Edit: here it‘s mentioned again: https://eso-u.com/articles/blackwood_prepts_preview__all_of_the_juicy_details

Sounds awesome and is one of the few features from PC I’d love to have on console.

Sangwyne

Wait, you've been playing without ability timers this entire time? I figured the UI for consoles was different- how many other basic features are you guys missing, exactly?

Stahlor

Sangwyne wrote: »

Wait, you've been playing without ability timers this entire time? I figured the UI for consoles was different- how many other basic features are you guys missing, exactly?

We basically play the game ourselves - not getting dragged by add-ons through the hardest content

Seraphayel

Sangwyne wrote: »

Wait, you've been playing without ability timers this entire time? I figured the UI for consoles was different- how many other basic features are you guys missing, exactly?

We didn’t have a debuff / buff UI on consoles until... Morrowind? Not sure about it.

We‘re missing a lot of convenience features, which are pretty unnecessary, but make the game a bit more comfortable. Ability timers is one of them - so if they are coming to console, it would be a huge relief, as you can time your skills way better. I haven’t seen it in an official statement yet, so I remain cautiously optimistic until I hear it from ZOS.

zvavi

Console will still lack combat metrics, but it is great I will be able to remove one of my add-ons

luen79rwb17_ESO

We must first test it and see if it is at least as good as the add-ons. In my particular case I still use add-ons for buff tracker

Kidgangster101

Seraphayel wrote: »

Another exciting change coming is the addition of ability timers to our action bars. Now you will be able to see the length of time left on a buff provided by one of your skills, without the need for addons if you’re on PC.

From the UESP preview of Blackwood. If this is true for console players it’s a VERY HUGE change and helps so much with the lacking UI.

Edit: here it‘s mentioned again: https://eso-u.com/articles/blackwood_prepts_preview__all_of_the_juicy_details

Sounds awesome and is one of the few features from PC I’d love to have on console.

It took console over a year of complaining to get a basic text chat or ability to search specific items on guild trader......

Way we used to have to find a group is join area chat and yell over each other...... Try setting up a group with 50+ people yelling...... Sad part is a lot of pc players argued we didn't need it 😂😂😂😂

But as far as anything goes for add ons it would be nice for console to have it. (Also try finding 1 item on console spending 3+ hours searching every trader/ load screens, just to see it not available) pc players can find exact locations of items and just go...... Ice suggested that feature as well and most pc players say "no if you want that play pc" like it hurts them or something...... Lol. I've brought this up in numerous threads.

At the end of the day this is a game and any quality of life things they can do to make people with less time enjoy it more they should do along with more in depth metrics for those who play hardcore. Don't just think pc players are the best (console sides have really great players that perform without add ons.... Imagine if they had what pc players have) lol

Wolfpaw

Nice move ZOS, this is great news. Maybe a mini map option in our future?

Lyserus

action duration reminder add-on improved my dps for a great deal, I hope the official implementation can be as good as that

danno8

luen79rwb17_ESO wrote: »

We must first test it and see if it is at least as good as the add-ons. In my particular case I still use add-ons for buff tracker

Yah they really goofed the buff timers by making them center justified, causing each new or expiring buff/debuff to shift the icons around endlessly.

Let's hope they literally just copy the layout of Action Duration Reminder.

Mahabahabtha

Great move @ZOS ...So in 11 Years we have Advanced Guild Store in Base Game ?

blkjag

Finally

Sergykid

Stahlor wrote: »

Sangwyne wrote: »

Wait, you've been playing without ability timers this entire time? I figured the UI for consoles was different- how many other basic features are you guys missing, exactly?

We basically play the game ourselves - not getting dragged by add-ons through the hardest content

that's why godslayer on consoles have 0.01% of players while on pc 1%

Stahlor

Sergykid wrote: »

Stahlor wrote: »

Sangwyne wrote: »

Wait, you've been playing without ability timers this entire time? I figured the UI for consoles was different- how many other basic features are you guys missing, exactly?

We basically play the game ourselves - not getting dragged by add-ons through the hardest content

that's why godslayer on consoles have 0.01% of players while on pc 1%

Not even that stupid "bar swap" warning in Cloudrest does work. Most of the time your screen just turns blue. Maybe some more years and they might fix it?

Seraphayel

Sergykid wrote: »

Stahlor wrote: »

Sangwyne wrote: »

Wait, you've been playing without ability timers this entire time? I figured the UI for consoles was different- how many other basic features are you guys missing, exactly?

We basically play the game ourselves - not getting dragged by add-ons through the hardest content

that's why godslayer on consoles have 0.01% of players while on pc 1%

Those 0.01% on console seem way more skilled than the 1% on PC though, when they were able to do it without all the addons.