ShieldsUp is a monitor for your shaman shields.
- Clear text display of remaining shield charges.
- Shows the name of the last person you cast Earth Shield on.
- Shows when your Earth Shield is overwritten by another shaman.
- Can alert you when a shield expires or is removed.
- Can automatically show or hide based on group size and zone type
- Condensed display when solo (or for shamans without Earth Shield)
Options are available in the standard Interface Options window, or by typing /sup.
If you have many addons, you may have encountered the Blizzard bug that causes the Interface Options window to sometimes open to the wrong panel. The addon InterfaceOptionsFrame_OpenToCategory_Fix provides a workaround for this bug.
I also recommend BetterBlizzOptions to make the Interface Options window movable and resizable.
Localization
ShieldsUp is compatible with all locales.
ShieldsUp is translated into English, German (deDE), Spanish (esES), French (frFR), Russian (ruRU), Simplified Chinese (zhCN), and Traditional Chinese (zhTW).
If you can provide new or updated translations for any locale, send me a PM.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Why isn't my Earth Shield being monitored?
- ShieldsUp only tracks Earth Shield when you cast it on yourself, or on a player or pet in your party or raid group. There is no way to reliably monitor Earth Shield on someone outside of you group, so ShieldsUp doesn’t try.
- Why is there only one charge counter?**
- ShieldsUp switches to a single-counter display when you are solo, or if you don’t have the Earth Shield talent, since in either of these circumstances, there is no way for you to have two shields active on targets ShieldsUp can monitor.
How to Request Features
Submit a feature request ticket describing the feature you’d like to see added to ShieldsUp, or the change you'd like to see made, and explain why you think it would be useful.
Please keep in mind that ShieldsUp is intentionally limited in scope to locally monitoring your shaman shields, and that requests for features outside of this scope will not be considered.
How to Report Problems
First, check the ticket tracker to see if the problem has already been reported. If it hasn't, try some basic troubleshooting steps; even if troubleshooting doesn't resolve the problem, it will give you some useful information. Finally, submit a bug report ticket that includes as much of the following information as possible:
- ShieldsUp version
- WoW locale (language)
- Character class, level, and talent build
- Does the problem happen when all addons are disabled except for ShieldsUp?
- Does the problem happen after you reset your ShieldsUp settings?
- What is the problem?
- Describe the steps I can take to reproduce the problem.
- Include the exact text of any error messages that appear. 1,2
- Include a screenshot if the problem is graphical.
Remember to check on your ticket after a few days. If a ticket is waiting on a response from you for more than a week, it will be closed.
1 If no error messages appear, please verify that there are actually no errors. Enable “Display Lua errors” in the Help panel under the Game tab in the Interface Options window, or install an error-catching addon like BugSack.
2 When including error messages, please do not also include the lists of local variables and/or installed addons that some error-handling tools provide. These lists almost never provide any useful information, and are annoying to scroll through.
Credits
ShieldsUp was inspired by the addon beSch, by Infineon.
License
ShieldsUp is free as in “free beer,” not as in “free software,” and you may not include it in your compilation, or distribute it in any other way, without getting permission first. See my WoWInterface portal or the README file inside the addon’s folder for the full license terms under which ShieldsUp is released.
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)...
