Group Cooldowns

[Shaitan256]

Someone in our part of the Forums asked for a group cooldown, cause he/she saw it in an MB Movie, so I started to look for it. I googled and came to the Addon CooldownTimers 2 (Download latest version) but it seems to be that it isn't working so I tried to set it, till I got the clue with it.

I don't know if everyone of you knows this, or is using this, used the search function to find something but find nothing.

This is the thread on german wehre I explain in german(it's with Pics)

You have to turn it on:
-Rightclick the Mapbutton go to Spell Cooldowns
-Choose the Spell you want to Broadcast to your main or to the group, what ever you want
-Click "Share" to let the addon Broadcast it.

That's all.

Note: The "Group"(the addon names it like this) : "GroupCooldowns" must not to be deleted, or renamed, then it shows you errors.

btw, don't look on my ui too closely was working on it so it looks silly.

Greetings,
Shaitan

[caffiend86]

Just to clarify does it share it via party chat or something like it or via the addon channel to allow other characters using cooldowntimers? I've been playing with it on one of my minions running it, seems to use alot screen real estate for stuff I don't need...

Any ideas on a mod that would share certain cool downs via a custom chat channel or something like it?

[Xorn]

As far as I know no channel is getting spammed with messages from this addon. I assume it's spamming in invisible addon-channel to keep track of the cooldowns all the time for all the abilities you set up to be shared with others.

[Shaitan256]

If I understand right, you can many things turn invisible, and only let the Party CD's work. That's how I do it. It's also for other Players, if they are in your Party and using this addon too, they can set their cooldowns to Broadcast it to you GCD "button" and vice versa. They don'T see you're GCD if you don't want it, and you can turn it off, as I remember.

[Tehtsuo]

I used this addon and Sorren's timers for my first 30 levels, but found that I didn't use them too much. I always ending up looking at my other screens to see cooldowns. Plus, they both seemed to be very unreliable and difficult to set up. If an alternative came along, I have no doubt I'd use it, but for now I don't need the clutter and extra setup headache.

[Shaitan256]

Can't figure out what's so difficult to just klick an Arrow in front of a Spellname

I Use my Cooldowns quite often , 2 Troll Mages with Berserk and Icy Veins is cool It's just nice to see when it's ready

Don't need them in the moment because I'm beginning my new Crew, and they have Similar CD's, so theirs np.

[caffiend86]

I wonder if one of our more talented code monkeys could dig into this addon's code find where and how it detects cooldowns and transmits to the addon channel and provide an option to transmit to a custom channel or party instead....

Meantime Shaitan I can't seem to find the options making the gui portions invisible with the exception of cooldown notification. Can you provide or maybe dump a copy of your Saved Variables file associated with this addon with the components already hidden....

[StormClouds]

It was me who was looking for a decent group cooldown addon, cooldown timers 2 does not fit the bill as it throws tons of horrendous lua errors on pretty much every shared cooldown I bother to set up.

I have tried clean installs i have tried only with CT2 installed The moment I share a cooldown between the 5 of them (say Gift of the Naaru) for example and then cast it, it blows up on any where from 2 - 5 of the chars with lua errors and its pretty much random wich get errors and wich it seems to work for.

[Chorizotarian]

I'm working on an addon that will send remote event notifications to MSBT/SCT. I'm mostly interested in totem notifications, but it would be pretty easy to add a module for cooldowns. Is that what you are looking for?

[StormClouds]

Personally? I am really looking for what CT2 was suposed to provide (or DoTimers comm module that no longer works) is just bars on my main's screen that are counting down the cool down of the Alt's abilities. CT2 would work awsome for me, I just cant seem to use it without throwing LUA errors every time I use a spell I am sharing.

Though as a stop gap solution if it sends that remote notificaiton for when the ability is ready... that may work as well.