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Video Guide: Getting Started with Cooldown Planning

15 March 2026

Penkek

Ragnon put together a fantastic introductory video that walks through the full cooldown planning workflow from start to finish. Whether you're setting up cooldowns for yourself or managing them for your raid team, this is a great place to start.

What the video covers

  • Creating a cooldown note — Adding your character, selecting your spec, and placing cooldowns on the boss timeline.
  • Personal vs shared notes — How personal notes work for individual use, and how shared notes let healing officers push plans to the whole raid.
  • Importing into NSRT — Copying your note from the website, pasting it into Northern Sky Raid Tools, and loading it in-game.
  • Testing & previewing — Using the test and preview features in NSRT to verify your cooldowns, TTS announcements, and display setup before you pull.
  • Combining notes — How personal cooldowns get automatically pulled out of a shared note, and how you can layer your own personal reminders on top.

  • Huge thanks to Ragnon for putting this together. We know we're not the best video people, and it's awesome to see someone present the tools this well. If you want to dive deeper into the written docs, check out the full NSRT guide and the Raidleader Flow.