Midnight Overview
Cooldown Manager Basics
The Cooldown Manager is an in-game combat tool designed to help keep track of your essential cooldowns, relevant combat buffs, and utility, including interrupts, CC, and movement-based abilities. This tool comes equipped with basic customization options and Edit Mode support.
The Cooldown Manager also has Import and Export string support, allowing you to grab your favorite streamer or friend's Cooldown Manager options and directly copy them over to your profile.
For players who previously used Weakauras to help track their cooldown abilities, you will notice that the Cooldown Manager can accomplish a lot of the same functionality, but a few things are still missing.
Included Features
Unavailable Features
Freely move spells between Essential and Utility sections.
Basic glow effects for buffed spells.
Hide inactive combat buffs to prevent UI clutter.
Edit Mode support for editing spell icon sizes, orientation, etc.
Display buffs as either a spell icon or a trackable bar.
Glow effects are pre-determined and cannot be customized.
No combat-potion or trinket tracking.
The list of abilities to track cannot be changed by the player.
No custom sounds for buffs, when spells become available, etc.
Zero tracking support for external buffs such as Time Spiral or Power Infusion.
Addons for the Cooldown Manager
Here are two of the most popular addons for the Cooldown Manager. These Add-Ons offer a little more customization for features unavailable with the base Cooldown Manager.
Arc UI
Arc UI offers complete customization of the Cooldown Manager, all with relatively easy-to-navigate settings. Arc UI takes the base function of the Cooldown Manager and adds more customization, including:
Custom Glow Colors for Buffs/Active Spells
Extensive options for the Orientation of Bars/Buffs
Desaturation options for when Spells are on cooldown
Bars designed to keep track of DoT spells, spell charges, etc.
And so much more!
Arc UI was made by ArcForge and can be downloaded through CurseForge.
My Essential Buff Tracker
If you're looking for a simple and easy way to track your most important buffs and cooldowns, look to MyEssentialBuffTracker! While Add-Ons like Arc UI offer more customization, MyEssentialBuffTracker keeps things simple and easy to understand. Here are some features of this Add-On:
Easily monitor buffs, cooldowns, and charges in a clean way
The ability to edit icon sizes, icons per row, and more with simple ease
Fine-tune the position, size, and visibility of charge/count on spells and cooldown text
MyEssentialBuffTracker was made by Ckraig and can be downloaded through CurseForge.
