Not only is the earth shield buff not in Blizzard’s CD manager, it’s completely secret. So you can’t even use an addon to track the buff. At least not as enhance shaman.
This HAS to get fixed. This is a buff that can not only be dispelled, but drops off every 9 hits and has a talent tied to it that has to be triggered before that and heals based on the number of charges left.
Seems like a pretty crazy oversight to leave earth shield buff out of what can be tracked. Particularly given how garbage shaman defenses are and how must worse they are getting in midnight with removal of thunderstorm and stone bulwark totem (and recent removal of ancestral guidance).
Same goes for skyfury buff as well. Which can also be dispelled…
I can’t post this on the beta forums because, for the first time since Vanilla, I didn’t preorder because I’m not sure I’m going to buy the expansion given the addon purge and current state of the default UI. Still in wait and see mode.
I suspect it’s an oversight. I fully understand the addon purge. But, Blizzard is still letting you track your own personal buffs and CDs.
Almost all of our personal buffs and CDs are in CD manager. As is the case for every other class/spec. Lightning shield can be tracked for example. Just not earth shield.
I think Blizzard just missed a few.
This is a really frustrating aspect of Blizzard taking over the UI - we are at their mercy to fix their own oversights and mistakes and they have a pretty bad track record when it comes to providing timely fixes.
You literally cannot have the Hot Hands buff out of combat and it’s trackable with the CD tracker.
Unless you’re strictly referring to the part where it’s not working with add-ons and then I get you because it definitely shouldn’t, but this should still be working in the base CD tracker.
Normal blizz frames absolutely show dispelable buffs, and in edit mode, if you increase the opacity size, it will take around 60% of the frame, more or less, depending on the size of your friendly frames.
It can show up on raid frames but so can a lot of other stuff.
Given how frequently earth shield has to be reapplied and how important it is monitor when running reactive warding, I want to be able to keep the buff where i’m tracking my key CDs and MSW stacks and not have to constantly check its presence/stack count on the raid frame and hope it doesn’t get buried under any other buffs.
Thunderous Paws cooldown isn’t trackable in the cooldown manager either. Ancestral Vigor and Earthliving Weapon HoT isn’t trackable on heal frames. These need to be added.
I think 974 is the general earth shield buff ID that works for all shaman specs.
Skyfury buff is also having secret status removed.
As well as WF weapon and FT weapon but those can’t be dispelled and apply automatically when you apply LS due to the new talent so don’t really need to be independently tracked anymore as long as you track LS.