Buffs Timers

there the pictures with the skill icon, and they become more grey as they about to expire....

 

^what above says, and they start to blink in the last few seconds. I kind of just naturally recast them quite often so it's not a huge problem for me. The more you play the character the more you get used to the times where you can kinda just tell when it's time to rebuff.

 

If you're in a boss with a timer like zak or HT, some people track major cooldowns like Time Leap and Res with when they cast it and how long the cooldown is. For smaller buffs, it's not worth tracking them like that and you kinda have to rebuff based on your feel of it's duration time plus visually on the top right buff indicator.

 

Rebuffing in boss shouldn't be a problem because you just do it in weapon cancel. And you spend half the time waiting for cancel to wear off in most bosses so you have plenty of time.

 

Some people use multi-timer apps for HT runs to keep track of sed timers etc. You can probably just do a similar version with HS/TL etc. I think you just set multiple timers (of various lengths), and whenever you rebuff/see sed, you just click that specific timer.

 

I don't know if is possible to add to this version and most likely it won't be possible. Maplestory does have this system tho:

On top of the grey area overcoming the image showing up the duration, it shows a number with the number of minutes left of duration, once the timer reaches 1 minute it will display a 60 and it will show a countdown second to second until the skill is over. This also applies to cooldowns so you know exactly the time left until the skill is back up. ç

If this was added it would be some neat quality of life but as it is right now it isn't too bad, the grey area marks the time decently well and I don't see that much confusion when comes to the durations. When comes to cooldowns you will most likely use them on a boss(Time Leap,Resurrect, Holy Shield), so just look at the timer of the boss when you use it and subtract the cooldown to the timer then you will know when the skill will be up.

 

I think this probably falls into the big bucket of "it would be nice, but it would take too much work to implement"

This would require reprogramming the client, I believe, which isn't trivial. While it would be a nice QoL improvement, I don't think it would really give that much benefit.

In grinding situations, you rebuff on the shortest buff timer. If you have a party with HS, SE and HB, you just rebuff every 2 minutes since that's when HS runs out. If you're solo grinding with this, the mules are probably in FM, so you can't time the rebuffs super accurately, even if you know exactly when they're going to expire (you need to avoid taking damage for however long the out of breath thing lasts). It would make it easier, but the difference would be negligible. If you're grinding with others and getting the buffs from them, it's usually quite hard to coordinate a group of people to convene at a perfect timing interval to min-max your buffs like that, especially with how desynced maple is as a game.

For buffs like shadow stars, you can see when it's close to running out and just keep an eye out for it to start flashing. This tells you to be ready to recast as soon as it actually disappears. Obviously would be easier to time with an actual number counting down, but min-maxing to that level is going to make much less of a difference than general RNG that's happening all the time.