Is it possible to make a visual countdown timer in a macro?

I'm boxing a pally tank / mage x3 and priest for heals and was curious if its possible to make a macro or mod i guess that does nothing but make a visual display of a cooldown timer...

i have a g11 keyboard and using the G1-12 keys on the side for my mages dps but it would be much much more affective if i could not only put a small box of 'mirror' macros on my mains GUI that did nothing but give me a visual countdown of the cooldown timer (say for fire blast) so i could see when it was available again... anyone tinkered with something of the sort?

simple answer: no

Detailed answer: This is more in the realms of an addon. There may be something out there already but I am not aware of it.

If i understand what u want (my bad no your :D) you can install this add on : http://www.wowinterface.com/download...ilityBars.html in main and toon client, set the ability u want see cooldown and the mod do a little bar with icon of the spell of your toon and the cooldown.

I hope this mod help :)

Can't some of the timer mods do that? For example, DoTimer says that it "lets you send your timers from DoTimer and Cooldowns to other people."

Oooh, I didn't see Ang's response. The PartyBars mod looks cool too.

Almost all addons that let you modify the bars do this. I use BarTender and one of the options is to show the cooldown as a number.

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Originally Posted by 'zhenyalix',index.php?page=Thread&postID=52447#pos t52447

i have a g11 keyboard and using the G1-12 keys on the side for my mages dps but it would be much much more affective if i could not only put a small box of 'mirror' macros on my mains GUI that did nothing but give me a visual countdown of the cooldown timer (say for fire blast) so i could see when it was available again... anyone tinkered with something of the sort?

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He wants cool downs for his alts to show on his main I believe.... which, am pretty sure, none of those addons do. If it CAN be done with an addon someone who multiboxes will have to do it.

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Originally Posted by '@Ang@',index.php?page=Thread&postID=52461#post524 61

If i understand what u want (my bad no your :D) you can install this add on : http://www.wowinterface.com/download...ilityBars.html in main and toon client, set the ability u want see cooldown and the mod do a little bar with icon of the spell of your toon and the cooldown.

I hope this mod help :)

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Wow Ang this def looks like it has potential... haven't tried it yet but "Party Ability Bars is intended for arena use to track party member ability cooldowns. A party member is required to have the mod if you want to track the member's cooldowns." whoot for not having to write a mod from scratch :D

the funniest part is this mod was intended to track your team members mods in arena... lol imo im u have to tell ur partner how to play his toon yall are already sol >.< maybe it would be a good way for them to learn lol but still im not complaning!! lol

thanks again!

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Originally Posted by Chorizotarian',index.php?page=Thread&postID=52558# post52558]Can't some of the timer mods do that? For example, [url='http://wow.curse.com/downloads/details/3260/

DoTimer[/url] says that it "lets you send your timers from DoTimer and Cooldowns to other people."

Oooh, I didn't see Ang's response. The PartyBars mod looks cool too.

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This is the way to go. I use it to keep track of my clones. Use the communications part of the mod to configure which spells/abilities to watch (none by default).