LoseControl makes it easy to see the duration of crowd control spells on your character/target/focus/party by displaying them in separate cooldown icons onscreen. The icons can be moved, resized, or made transparent. It's also compatible with any CooldownCount or OmniCC type mods that display a timer on top of the icon.
New in 3.22:
Changed versioning scheme to match WoW client's.
Added Cobalt Frag Bomb to spell list.
Added support for Perl and XPerl unit frames.
Added arena enemy unit frame support.
Fixed bug where debuff icons would sometimes not overlay the unit portrait correctly.
Improved performance when unit frames are hidden.
Reworked options menu.
Added settings for individual frame strata.
Known issues:
Psychic Horror disarm effect is disabled to prevent conflict with the horrify effect.
Perl and XPerl support doesn't work with 3D portraits.
Unlocking frames does not show arena enemy frames if they are anchored to Blizzard frames (because they don't exist unless you're in an arena).
Still working on:
Command line options.
3.22:
Changed versioning scheme to match WoW client's.
Added Cobalt Frag Bomb to spell list.
Added support for Perl and XPerl unit frames.
Added arena enemy unit frame support.
Fixed bug where debuff icons would sometimes not overlay the unit portrait correctly.
Improved performance when unit frames are hidden.
Reworked options menu.
Added settings for individual frame strata.
1.42:
Fixed Wyvern Sting to no longer show dot effect.
Fixed Freezing Trap not displaying.
Added Nature's Fury (Freya) to PvE list.
Added Mark of the Faceless (General Vezax) to PvE list.
1.41:
Fixed a bug with icons not hiding after changing targets/focus.
Removed Psychic Horror disarm effect (horrify effect still remains).
Better integration with the standard Blizzard UI.
- Target, focus, and party icons will now display within their appropriate unit portrait.
- Note: You can manually adjust their position to bring them out of the portrait. You should do this if you want to use LoseControl with non-standard UI frames. However, the only way to undo this is to reset LoseControl to its default settings.
Updated German and Russian translations.
Consolidated all localization files into one for easier translation.
1.4:
WoW 3.1 patch support.
Support for Target/Focus/Party frames.
Removed Min/Max debuff duration options.
Death Knight:
Glyph of Blood Boil is now Glyph of Heart Strike.
Added Desecration snare.
Druid:
Added Typhoon snare.
Hunter:
Removed T.N.T. stun.
Removed Improved Wing Clip root.
Mage:
Added Fiery Payback disarm.
Added Frostfire Bolt snare.
Paladin:
Added Shield of the Templar silence.
Priest:
Removed Blackout stun.
Added Psychic Horror (horror + disarm).
Shaman:
Added Earthgrab root (Storm, Earth and Fire talent).
Added Freeze root (Frozen Power talent).
Warlock:
Removed Pyroclasm stun.
Added Aftermath snare.
PvE:
Added Gravity Bomb and Light Bomb (XT-002 Deconstructor)
1.31
Added hunter pet abilities, Chilblains, Frost Grenades.
Added PvE debuffs: Mutating Injection (Grobbulus), Positive/Negative Charge (Thaddius), Detonate Mana (Kel'Thuzad)
Added minimum and maximum debuff duration options.
1.3
Converted to spellIds.
Added random proc CCs (Impact, Blackout, etc).
Added tracking for silence, disarm, root, and snare effects.
Added slash commands to access the options menu.
Settings saved per character instead of per account.
Fixed bug with overlapping the same CC effect.
Fixed bug with Wyvern Sting DOT component.
1.23
Added option to disable CooldownCount/OmniCC text.
1.22
Added Korean support (credit: sayclub).
1.21
Added Chinese support (credit: 饺子).
1.2
Added German, Spanish, French, and Russian support.
1.12
Added Cower in Fear and Gnaw for Death Knights and removed Glyph of Frost Strike.
Added a few fringe case spells like Turn Evil and Shackle Undead that can work on players under certain effects (i.e. Lichborne, Metamorphasis).
Made frame movable, resizable, and added adjustable transparency.
Options can be configured in the AddOns Interface Options.
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
