Feature Idea: Skill And Potion Duration Bars - From Path of Exile AutoHotkey Macro

[leohero92]

Hello Lailloken,

Could you please consider to add horizontal bar represented to it's duration when user press a key, something like this:

This feature idea is based on a feature of Path of Exile AutoHotkey Macro
http://lutbot.com/#/

[Lailloken]

You can set up clone-frames for that. I think these are better for monitoring cooldowns/uptime because there are map-mods now that alter buff-duration and/or cooldown-recovery. But let me know if you have a use-case where clone-frames don't work.

[leohero92]

Hi @Lailloken,

Thank you,

I do know the clone-frame feature but I feel it's hard to track flask duration with these tiny bars, especially in PoE combat which is so chaotic and lack of visibility (as you know, a lot of on ground effect, after death effects, these projectiles all over screen.....). And you can see right in the posted picture, these yellow bars on yellow ground.

Same problem with skills, even if I set opacity as 5, it's still hard to track. If I have too much focus to track on these thing, I feel hard to focus in combat.

Clone-frame is still very useful.
But please consider to add these simple bars which can customize color, width, duration and position.

[Iphex]

Hi, I would like to jump onto this one for an interesting usecase. I am playing champion and have to trigger adrenaline every 20 seconds via gear swapping(midnight bargain 2x) (or, what others do is cf lifetap or something) and id LOVE a way to scan the buff bar for Adrenaline, show it besides my character and then even maybe play a sound if the buff disappeard. Same thing also works for molten shell, phase run etc. .

The easy way would be like the programm above, start an action on key press eg. I press x (gearswap) = trigger a 20 seconds bar that plays a sound (optional) at the end.

And this one is more farfetched, but scanning hp / es (mana) values and triggering an soundalarm / recording it for statitics upon reaching low values.

[Lailloken]

I'll think about it again. The reason why I haven't implemented something like this is that I think timers/bars by themselves look kind of cheap or cheesy. There's also the issue of buff expiration rate and temp chains desyncing the timings.

and then even maybe play a sound if the buff disappeard

scanning hp / es (mana) values and triggering an soundalarm

That sounds tryhard and like something GGG wouldn't allow.