How to Setup the WoW Forever Cooldown Manager (No Addons Needed) — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey everyone and welcome back to another video.  Today we're going to talk about the cooldown
2. 0:03manager which is inbuilt in World of Warcraft  forever. Some people might download add-ons that
3. 0:09actually you know does the same as cooldown uh  manager but in World of Warcraft forever we have
4. 0:14one inbuilt into the game. Let me show you here.  So if you press escape and go into options go to
5. 0:20advanced then you can see you have here cooldown  manager. First of all, check mark it that it's
6. 0:26actually, you know, active. And then you can go  into advanced cooldown settings. In here, you
7. 0:31will then be able to choose different spells that  you want to track depending on various situations.
8. 0:37You can also change where they should be moved or  be placed at if you click uh escape edit mode. And
9. 0:43then you can see you have these here. Utility  cooldown, track buffs, essential cooldowns,
10. 0:49and track bars. In case you cannot find them, you  have to go in here and actually enable cooldown
11. 0:54manager so you can actually manage it. Well, now  we got all the the fundamental things on on board.
12. 1:01Let's go back into the cooldown manager. So,  here you have three different tabs. First of all,
13. 1:08in the top you have spells. You got essential  cooldowns, utility cooldowns, and items. What
14. 1:14you basically So, basically essential cooldowns  and utility cooldowns in my world is pretty much
15. 1:19the same. It's just like smaller icons. You can  see like here it's just like small icons above the
16. 1:24big icons. So yeah, and since it is forever, it's  not really that many cooldowns you really have to
17. 1:30track. Basically, the first page here is for like  tracking cooldowns. So for example, when I go
18. 1:36in combat, I would like to know when is my storm  strike ready, when is my earthshock ready, when is
19. 1:40my fire ready, and when is my rage of defia ready.  So all the spells that I feel is important for me
20. 1:46to see in the middle of the screen when they off  cooldown then I would like to see them up here. Of
21. 1:52course you can also see the cooldown just looking  down your spells but you know sometimes it's just
22. 1:57nicer to have them in the middle of the screen  so you don't really have to worry about them
23. 2:01down there. So just to say but for example in my  case I have just dragged them up here to essential
24. 2:06cooldowns. And if I also wanted for example to  see cooldown for stoneclaw to I just drag it up
25. 2:11here. Boom. Now it's also going to show there in  yeah whenever like you know it's yeah it actually
26. 2:17shows every time in combat then also utility  cooldowns but again this is like small icons
27. 2:22you can have above the armors and then you have of  course the items the the trinkets in case you want
28. 2:28that you can also right click on your cooldowns  for example right click on earthshock and then you
29. 2:32can set up alerts so alerts what basically they  do is that they can do make sounds so for example
30. 2:38whenever my earthshock is ready uh I can use it  again I can either you have a sound or visual.
31. 2:44You can also have both. You just create first a  sound one and then you create a visual one. But
32. 2:48I don't think many actually new. You can right  click and then say new alert. So for example,
33. 2:53I could say sound. Then we could set when uh  when it's available like actually when I can
34. 2:59use it. And then for example, you can choose  like a cat. Uh can we actually hear the cat?
35. 3:07No, it no, we I don't think we can actually hear  them. But again, then add alert and now they are
36. 3:15there in case you you want to put it. But but  again, yeah, you have all these different alerts
37. 3:19here that you can set up in case you want to  like have sounds. For example, now I'm going to
38. 3:22hear cat sounds whenever my earth shock is ready.  I'm going to definitely forget this tomorrow and
39. 3:29then I'm going to be like, why am I hearing cat  sounds? Let's do that. New alert sound. Cat. Okay,
40. 3:36I'm going to be so confused tomorrow. Good. So,  this is your cooldowns. Set up alerts. Set the
41. 3:41cooldowns you want to see here. Then you have  buffs. Buffs is important because they will show
42. 3:47up depending on like, you know, when your buff  is active. it will show you the buffs that it
43. 3:51has. You have two different buffs you can display  way. You have the track buffs. So, for example,
44. 3:56here you can see if I use my lightning shield,  it shows that my lightning shield is active,
45. 4:00how long and how many stacks. I could have it this  way here where it's just like an icon. But we can
46. 4:07also show it like this. Uh so you can see here  if we say options advanced cooldown manager I
47. 4:17can also move it down here and then it will show  like this. So you can either have it like as an
48. 4:21icon up here or you can have it as a bar like you  know like a a bar here so I can see how long it
49. 4:26is. Lightning shield it doesn't make sense having  it like this where you can see how long time till
50. 4:31it's actually done because lightning shield is  not a spell that usually like goes off by time.
51. 4:36It's something that goes up because it because  it only has like three hits. Like people can hit
52. 4:41me three time and then it's off. So it does make  sense to for example use that one. So that would
53. 4:45be up here. What it makes sense to have down here  on track bars would be buffs that is like limited
54. 4:51like you know very short time. For example, my  storm strike buff which is going to only be there
55. 4:55for 12 seconds. My flurry buff. Uh my rage of fast  buff for example. elemental for boost water shield
56. 5:02you know buffs that is like you know procs for  example whenever you like have a talent that maybe
57. 5:07like procs whenever you crit then it's nice to see  okay it's ready I can use it in the next seven uh
58. 5:13seven seconds and I can see like my closing window  but again you scroll down and then you choose if
59. 5:19you ever even want to have them on the track bars  or if you want to have them on the track buffs
60. 5:23but again yeah so here you can track buffs again  and you also can have items here in case then we
61. 5:29Group buffs. This is basically where you can  set up which of the buffs you can make that
62. 5:33you actually want to track on your party members  and raid members. I still haven't really tested it
63. 5:38because I haven't done like a raid in WoW forever  yet or something like that. So, it's something I
64. 5:42still needed to do a little bit testing of, but  it basically where you can choose which buffs you
65. 5:46want to track on your party group raid members  and so on. But yeah, it's it's quite new cuz I
66. 5:52didn't see this in retail. But still, it's a way  where you can say, okay, which one do you actually
67. 5:56want to track on your party members and which one  do you not care about tracking our party members
68. 6:00or something like that? But yeah, essentially  that is. But again, the most two important things
69. 6:05is tracking your own cooldowns and tracking your  buffs that is on you for your rotations and so on.
70. 6:12And again, keep in mind, you can go into edit  mode. Then you can click on these bars here,
71. 6:16move them, position them wherever you want to  have them. And then what I do is that I click
72. 6:22on visibility and say in combat because I don't  actually want to see those icons all the time.
73. 6:28I only want to see them whenever I'm in combat.  But of course, that's up to you. So I just like
74. 6:32click them all in combat. And now they don't show  unless I actually go into combat because else I I
75. 6:38don't care too much about them. But yeah, so this  was my little cooldown manager guide for World
76. 6:43of Warcraft forever. Let me know if you have any  questions in the comment section or feel free to
77. 6:47join the Discord server in case you want to have,  you know, ask any questions about this or if you
78. 6:52want to check out the UI in case you like the UI  that I have here. I actually have a full complete
79. 6:56guide for it. You can find it on one of my  previous videos or you can find it on my Discord.
80. 7:01But yeah, thanks for watching. Have a great day  and I'll see you in the next video. Peace out.