Guild Wars 2

TL;DR – When a trait is on cooldown, there should be a little icon next to your health globe with the trait icon – or the ability icon if the trait casts an actual skill – to indicate that the trait’s on cooldown.

When a trait is on cooldown I think it would be a great help if you received a little icon of that trait to the right of your health globe to alert you that it is still recharging. It could function like a boon and have that little white border that goes down to tell you how much time’s left before the trait’s up again. If the trait actually uses an existing skill, perhaps it would be better if the actual skill icon was displayed instead of the trait icon. Just because people won’t memorize the trait icons for everything. When would this help? Picture playing a Necro with Master of Corruption and Plague sending. If I was relying on Plague Sending to save me when I blowed all of my Corruptions, and it procced without me knowing, and I used my corruptions thinking it was off cooldown, then I would be a bit salty. This change would allow players to more accurately play around these traits and know when they can perform specific actions like taking Wrath of Justice on a guardian and activating your Virtue of Justice before using Hammer 3 for a double immobilize for instance.

Why are we not funding this?

This is the sort of thing a custom ui would be amazing for.

I can’t envision anywhere one the present interface where it could be put without cluttering the view up even more. it’s an interesting idea though

Traits ICD display would be a great addition.

+the power set of infinity

I think they’ve responded on this idea actually. Kinda said they didn’t want to promote playing as a numbers game (more than it already is i guess). You’ll probably be stuck with 3rd party stuff, just use at your own risk of course.