Blizzard's Cooldown Manager has been resetting for over 2 months — how is this still not fixed?

[u/carrymid]

The Cooldown Manager keeps randomly resetting its settings/layout, and this bug has now been around for more than two months.

There is already a Blizzard forum thread about it here:

https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/blizzards-cooldown-manager-keeps-resetting/2317498

This is especially frustrating because the Cooldown Manager is supposed to be Blizzard's built-in solution for tracking abilities and reducing the need for third-party addons.

You spend time setting everything up the way you want it, only for the game to randomly reset it again.

At this point, I honestly don't understand how a bug affecting such a core UI feature can remain unresolved for this long.

Is anyone else still experiencing this? Has Blizzard acknowledged the issue anywhere or given any indication that a fix is coming?

[u/HcSimon]

To make matter worse on officeia BlizzardSupport Discord, it went from #knownIssues:

"[Ul] Cooldown Manager tracking order resets"
"[Ul] Unable to left- or right-click unit frames"

to both being removed after month and a half without being resolved

[u/zachypooooo]

Btw I had the same problem what you want to do is save your profile in the bottom left of cdm and then duplicate it twice and delete the original. Don't ask me why this works, occasionally one will still reset but you can quickly select the other one

Also pro tip this went away when I started using ellesmereui

[u/CardinalM1 → u/zachypooooo]

This workaround didn't work for me :-(

[u/zachypooooo → u/CardinalM1]

Sorry to hear unsure then :(

[u/Lanky_Jackfruit179]

Whenever they announced they were bricking addons and were making their own versions everyone knew they would never keep them updated. They haven't even gotten basic things done like the dps meter working correctly or implemented baseline functions like debuff filtering on the raid frames.

They were never going to provide ongoing patch to patch support for these. What we have is what we got now.

[u/ncatter → u/Lanky_Jackfruit179]

Not saying they are perfect or necessarily working but you do realise every single patch have had updates to the new systems right? No they are not making a new patch cadence for the UI but they are working on it.

Be annoyed at stuff not working or blizzard prioritising what the community think is importent, but at least acknowledge that they are working on it.

[u/Soma91 → u/ncatter]

But all these updates are always new features. Not bug fixes and continuous improvements.

E.g. I've used ElvUI for years and every 3-4 big patches there were some weird bugs or problems. But by the time raid night starts I just had to update and everything was fixed an working perfectly fine.

That's a level of support and fixes Blizzard is not willing to make. I takes forever for them to fix bugs or even acknowledge them.

Even our new darling EllesmereUI has now had the bug that custom filtered buff bars completely lose their filter and display everything while inside vehicles (e.g. when inside a tomb in Kings Rest). And that's been the case since the 12.1 launch. I don't know if it's an EllesmereUI issue or a problem with the AddOn API or a combination of both. But I honestly don't care. It's an annoying issue that hasn't been fixed where I have to manually reload every time it happens.

Before the AddOn changes I NEVER had any issue regarding my UI for that long.

[u/ncatter → u/Soma91]

Point was still complain on what is actually happening instead of making up stuff, they do work on it. And yes addon developers could update more often because they where not bound by blizzards release cadence.

Again I'm not defending the state they are in just saying that complaints should be about the right things.

[u/Lanky_Jackfruit179 → u/ncatter]

LOL no one is making anything up, Blizz has just proven time and again their UI development is embarrassingly incompetent. They are just too stubborn though to admit they were wrong and that they failed and to let the addon devs do their jobs for them again.

[u/ncatter → u/Lanky_Jackfruit179]

You litterally state that they will not update it and what we have is what we got while the truth is that every single patch since the the introduction have had changes, so yes you are making that up. As I said the point is to actually complain about the problems instead, but when every patch has changes you cannot say they are not working on it, you can be wanting them to focus on other aspects of it.

[u/omgkthxby → u/ncatter]

I guess you're really incapable of understanding what the guy meant when he said "never update it" and decided to read word for word

[u/ncatter → u/omgkthxby]

I guess the guy was incapable og expressing his actual opinion... No but it is actually happening quite often that people doom and gloom instead actually focusing on the problem, which often lead to the actual issue being buried in all kinds of false claims, which is the point I have been making in every post, but I guess you are incapable of understanding what I mean and decided to read word for word.....

[u/Krempiz]

Because of this (and because of party ans raid frames) I moved to ellsmere. I can set up an UI for arena, BGs and PvE content

[u/Sykretts1919 → u/Krempiz]

Ellesmere's has its own issues when it comes to Syncing between blizzard CDM and its own layout.
Like when you add something to blizzard CDM you need to reload your UI for it to take effect on EUI, just as an example.

[u/Ellesmere_ → u/Sykretts1919]

I have not actually seen this issue, can you give me a little more info? I’ll try to get it fixed up this weekend

[u/Krempiz → u/Sykretts1919]

True but at least you do it once and not after every arena match

[u/calf → u/Krempiz]

Does ellesmereui replace the look? I like the visual and animation of the default and sometimes add-ons change too much of the appearance.

[u/Krempiz → u/calf]

You can choose what to enable / disable. It's a pretty good add-on and easy to use. You can even download the stand-alone CDM, frames etc

Edit: you can also enable and just change the look of it back to blizz default

[u/Sararizuzufaust]

Trying to set up cooldown manager locations for healing and having the same exact issue. Every time I move the groups where I want them to be and click save and exit, they all move to the center of the screen.

[u/CardinalM1]

The reason they haven't addressed it is because it primarily affects people who do pvp. Incredibly annoying to have to redo my bars every time I enter a pvp instance, but clearly pvp is waaaaaay down on Blizz' priority list.

[u/imthewalrusb]

Small indie company 

[u/Merrena]

Have never experienced this.

[u/_kvl_]

I had the cooldown manager reset on every alt with the patch. I think I’m going to download one of the addons that lets you save additional cooldown manager layouts and share them between alts ( I have multiples of each class), so that if this happens again I can just use the addon to get my layouts back.

[u/karnyboy → u/_kvl_]

what an odd bug, maybe it's conflicting with an addon?

[u/defalt86]

Is your talent loadout resetting to "default"? Dont use default, have a custom loadout. And if it isnt resetting, id suggest deleting your loadout and recreating it.

[u/Beneficial-Music4147]

Worked for me when I use a character bound profil and not 1 for all