I can help with part of this. The active one, is the one you can see.

Weapon sets don't break on bar swap anymore, unless you don't have the same set on the other bar (in which case, they should break - it's no longer 5 pcs)

Yes, basically the Action Duration Reminder addon should be made into the base game.

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

@IonicKai if you have full 5pc Ebon on when both bars are active, the buff remains. They corrected this numerous patches ago for things like Imperium, TFS, and Relequen, to name a few.

You'll drop block while you swap, but the set bonus should remain unless you're running a different weapon set on the other bar.

I think you lose 5 set piece bonus for a very short time. Tested it a few weeks ago.

IonicKai wrote: »

I would like to propose that skills have their cool down time tracked directly on the abilities similar to how the ultimate number is tracked when that UI element is turned on. This would make it easier for players to see how their ability up-time works and provide a major QoL change for console players who do not have access to add-ons to track these.

This is something Action Duration Reminder Addon does. I fully support to implement it in the base game. I can't imagine playing without such a tool. Console players deverse some love!

The buff/debuff timer is poorly designed imo. It's just a mess. Does it even show skills like Endless Hail or Blockade?

My hope is ZOS is working on buff timers for the base game i.e. "console players". Class rep Masel said they had mentioned it to them so at least they are a wear of the issue. Plus give us a mini map.

klowdy1 wrote: »

LUI extended is what you're looking for.

After seeing how this add on looks I agree! That is the exact functionality I am looking for to track skill duration. It was a bit of an oversight when I referred to the counter to be for cool downs as it isn't a cool down since you can cast the ability before the timer expires.

there is an addon for this, "action duration reminder"

as for console players, i got nothing. might be worth re-evaluating some decisions you've made i guess.

Merlin13KAGL wrote: »

@IonicKai if you have full 5pc Ebon on when both bars are active, the buff remains. They corrected this numerous patches ago for things like Imperium, TFS, and Relequen, to name a few.

You'll drop block while you swap, but the set bonus should remain unless you're running a different weapon set on the other bar.

@Merlin13KAGL Ebon must not be used on weapons. The "fix" that they did a number of patches ago affects the stats only for the wearer of the set. But for the rest of the group, they will still momentarily lose the Ebon health and will need to be rehealed back to full with each bar swap. This is not surprising, as making a special case to handle bar swaps is easy for the bar swapper, but for the bar swaps of an external source of the buff? I expect that's quite a bit more complicated.

By "QOL for console players" do you mean for PvE guys who are doing static ST rotations to a trial boss?

What do you want to track when you have the same dots on multiple targets? Which cooldown should it prioritise?

It'd be better if the icons that appear for debuffs and buffs on the UI, appeared under a players nameplate (own effects) and you could see your timers ticking on each target (Edit: Without targetting) - But even then, it could get very messy.

If they just added timers for the ground-based damage, that would probably be enough.

@BNOC I actually want this to help with dynamic rotations as right now on console you have to simply keep a timer in your head since there is no visual aid. I see your point about attacks that can apply to multiple targets such as poison injection but simply keeping track of the last one applied would work for me. In PVE you typically don't have have multiple targets up for long enough to matter and in PvP you have other things to do then pay attention to skill durations as there is a lot of dodging and many abilities are cleansed off by things like purge.

Destyran wrote: »

There is a cool add on I saw someone using on pc that we should get on console. It adds the skill timer and if you swap bars the timed skill appears above the slot it would be on the first bar it looks fantastic

Action Duration Reminder, mentioned earlier in the thread.

BNOC wrote: »

By "QOL for console players" do you mean for PvE guys who are doing static ST rotations to a trial boss?

What do you want to track when you have the same dots on multiple targets? Which cooldown should it prioritise?

It'd be better if the icons that appear for debuffs and buffs on the UI, appeared under a players nameplate (own effects) and you could see your timers ticking on each target (Edit: Without targetting) - But even then, it could get very messy.

If they just added timers for the ground-based damage, that would probably be enough.

The add-on for pc tracks your most recently de-buffed target (I think). So if I use rending slashes on 2 enemies, the duration over the skill slot is just showing the most recent time I used the ability. This is super useful, it can be annoying trying to track a dot on a target from the UI without using tab targeting.

Edit: I wonder if it tracks the dot or the timer since the ability was used, important to note for situations like purging.

Rearming trap has some issues though, the ability lasts 60 seconds when placed, so doesn't help with tracking the dot portion. Doesn't really matter seeing as the duration matches endless hail where it's used most often. Mag builds have channeled acceleration as an option.

idk wrote: »

There are no CDs on skills in this game to begin with. There is merely when DoTs will end.

Technically there is the GCD, but nothing like in WOW. If you spam an instant cast skill though, for say, 46 seconds, it will only go off 46 times no matter how fast you are spamming it. Not that anyone wants to track that second's cooldown though...