Lost CD Tracker

Lost CD Tracker is a lightweight raid cooldown tracker inspired by the cooldown list in Method Raid Tools. It shows a clean row of bars — one per player, per cooldown — so you can see at a glance who has a raid cooldown available, who just used one, and when the next one comes back.

WHAT IT DOES

Every tracked cooldown moves through three live states, each with its own colour:
- ACTIVE (gold): the buff/effect is currently running and its window is counting down (e.g. the 8 seconds of Aura Mastery, the 6 seconds of Spirit Link Totem).
- COOLDOWN (red): the spell is on cooldown, counting down to ready.
- READY (green): the spell is back up and can be used.

HOW IT KNOWS

Lost CD Tracker is entirely chat-driven — it does not read the combat log and never scrapes auras, so it is unaffected by the Midnight 12.1 aura-security changes and never calls a protected function.

- Party / raid / instance chat: a line like "[Divine Hymn] is ready!" is treated as "that player just cast it" and starts the Active window, then the cooldown. A follow-up line like "[Divine Hymn] will be ready in 2:14!" creates or corrects that player's cooldown bar. Because those channels only reach your own group, a ping there always produces a bar — no roster guessing.
- Your own casts: when you cast a tracked cooldown it is added to your list instantly and (optionally) broadcast to chat in that same format, so everyone running the addon sees it. The real, talent- and haste-adjusted cooldown is read from your spellbook so your bar is accurate.
- /pingspell SpellName: drop this under /cast SpellName in a macro to announce any spell that isn't in the built-in list.
- Free-form chat: a short group-chat line that is just a spell name or a known short alias ("tranq", "pi", "barrier", "hts", "link", "am", "rewind", "zephyr"...) counts as a cast. Lines containing "ready", "cooldown", "cd" or a question mark are ignored so status pings and questions never create phantom bars.

A repeated "is ready!" while a bar is still on cooldown is treated as a reminder and ignored, so announce spam doesn't reset your timers.

BUILT-IN COOLDOWN DATABASE

Ships with the major raid healing, external and defensive cooldowns, cross-referenced from Method Raid Tools' data — Divine Hymn, Power Word: Barrier, Holy Word: Salvation, Aura Mastery, Blessing of Sacrifice, Healing Tide Totem, Spirit Link Totem, Ancestral Protection Totem, Tranquility, Ironbark, Revival, Life Cocoon, Rallying Cry, Anti-Magic Zone, Darkness, Zephyr, Rewind, Time Dilation, and more, plus common personals (Divine Shield, Ice Block, Barkskin...). Each entry carries its cooldown and its active-effect duration. You can add anything else with "/lostcd add <spellID> <cooldown> <activeSeconds>".

LATENCY COMPENSATION

Cooldown numbers pulled from chat are always slightly stale by the time they reach you. Lost CD Tracker adds an offset to correct for it — Auto uses your live world latency, or you can set a fixed value in milliseconds. Bars line up with the caster's real cooldown instead of finishing early.

CUSTOMIZATION

A tabbed options window (open with /lct):
- Layout: display mode (Icon + Bar, Bar only, or Icon only), grow up or down, number of columns, max bars, bar width and height, icon size, bar and icon text sizes, bar spacing, column spacing.
- Appearance: lock position, hide unless in a group, toggle the background panel, border, header title and the dark track behind each bar; recolour the Active / Cooldown / Ready states with a colour picker.
- Behaviour: toggle each detection source, and the latency compensation.
- Cooldowns: the full spell list with a per-spell on/off switch and a per-spell column assignment — build your list exactly like the MRT cooldown list, choosing which cooldowns you care about and which column they sit in.

HOW IT CHANGES THE GAME

Out of the box the default raid interface gives you no shared view of raid cooldowns. Lost CD Tracker adds a compact, always-current display of your group's defensive and healing cooldowns without the weight of a full raid-tools suite. Healers and raid leaders can call cooldowns off a single row of bars; every member sees the same information as long as they run the addon (or a /pingspell macro).

Slash commands: /lct or /lost open options; /lostcd for text commands (/lostcd help lists them).