Summary

Cooldown Manager Classic recreates the clean, grouped cooldown display of World of Warcraft Midnight's Cooldown Manager for World of Warcraft Classic. Built on top of Classic's native APIs, it provides a centred rows of icons and bars for essential abilities, utility spells, charges and tracked buffs, without the configuration overhead of WeakAuras.

Open the spell picker, drag and drop abilities which you want to track, and Cooldown Manager Classic builds a retail style layout using Classic spellbook data, cooldowns, charges and auras.

To open Advanced Cooldown Settings, run;

/cdmc

Compatibility

Cooldown Manager Classic automatically adapts to the version fo Classic you're playing:

• Classic Era - Tracks core class cooldowns, procs and rotational abilities
• Season of Discovery - Supports rune abilities, modified coolodnws and new spell interactions
• Burning Crusade Classic (Coming soon)

All spell data is filterd to the version you're currently on, ensuring accurate cooldown timers and proc detection across all Classic branches.

Features

Cooldown Groups

Organised, centred rows of icons showing:

• Essential cooldowns - rotational abilities, charges and major class spells
• Utility - defensive, mobility and support abilities
• Tracked buffs - procs, self-buffs, runes and long duration auras
• Cooldown Bars - defensive and utility effects where an icon swipe is hard to read

Each group can be moved, resized and customised through the Edit Mode.

Cooldowns & Charges

• Uses Classic's spellbook
• Shows swipes, recharge timers, charge counts and ready states
• Rank independent spell resolution ensures profiles work across all levels
• Unavailable spells (unlearned ranks, unengraved runes) hide themselves and reappear automatically when usable

Tracked Buffs

A unified group that can display icons or bars:

• Buff icons follow Midnights Cooldown Manager behaviour
• Buff bars show icon, name, drainging bar and time left
• Permanent auras (stances, aspects, forms) fill their bar instead of appearing empty - This is deliberate Classic specific improvement
• Swipe colour matches Midnight's buff templates rather than cooldown templates

Cooldown Bars

A fourth group with no retail equivalent:

• Tracks the effect duration of defensives and utility abilities
• After the effect ends, shows the recharge, dimmed, until ready
• Effect and Cooldown mode mirrors Classic pacing
• Effect Only mode matches retail's simpler tracked bar behaviour
• Aura matching uses the ability's spell ID; if the uara uses a different ID, the bar falls back to recharge tracking

Edit Mode Integration

• Hooks into the Edit Mode ro provide drag handles
• Persists layout changes through save layouts and revert all changes
• Groups can be freely positioned and locked anywhere on screen

Profiles & Import/Export

• Full profile import/export via text strings

Roadmap

• Buff bars alongside buff icons
• Trinket and consumable tracking
• Keybind text on icons
• Class presets
• Talent and rune aware automatic profile switching
• TBC support from the same codebase
• Tracks procs on abilities and highlight key spells