Guild Wars 2

I want to start saying I’m not a big fan of WoW. Guild Wars 2 is much better in many aspects. But one think I miss from WoW is the visual alerts about your procs, giving you complete control of your build/skills.

Here is an example:

The Ranger has a trait (Clarion Bond) that procs when you swap pets, and this effect has a 30 sec cooldown. However, pet swapping has a lower cooldown than that. So, in many situations in the middle of combat after triggering Clarion Bond, I feel I simply don’t have enough information to decide if I should swap pets again or wait a little bit more for my Clarion Bond to recharge, since I don’t know exactly if 30 sec have already passed or not. In other words, I feel I don’t have full control of all my abilities.

Has anyone already suggested the implementation of visual alerts for procs? I’m not even talking about screen customization such as we find in WoW. Simple icons counting down your proc cooldowns would be great already!

Don’t you get a buff when Clarion Bond is off cd?

Edit: you do, it looks like this: http://puu.sh/kzfwE/d91196c5f7.jpg only works in combat though.