Cooldown Manager

Cooldown Manager displaying important abilities for a death knight.

Cooldown Manager (also Essential Cooldowns)^[1] allows a player to track their important cooldowns and buffs in a customizable element. It is not enabled by default but can be enabled in the Options under the "Advanced Options" section.

Trivia

It was inspired by several popular cooldown-tracking AddOns of which are WeakAuras, OmniCD, and Cooldown Timer.
Despite the tool being designed to reduce dependency on AddOns, new AddOns such as "Cooldown Manager Customizer" expand on its limitations such as being able to choose what spells to show.^[2]

Patch changes

Patch 11.1.5 (2025-04-22): Added.

References

^ Edit Mode
^ Archimtiros 2025-04-23. Customize Blizzard's Cooldown Manager with the Cooldown Manager Customization Addons in Patch 11.1.5. Wowhead.

User interface

Always accessible

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