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  • World of Warcraft
  • 59,075 Monthly Downloads
  • Supports: 5.3.0
  • 970,943 Total Downloads
  • Updated 05/22/2013
  • Created 11/09/2008
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  • License: Public Domain
  • Newest File: LoseControl 5.3
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About LoseControl

LoseControl makes it easy to see the duration of crowd control spells by displaying them in a dedicated icon onscreen.

Features:

  • Displays duration of all CC spells and abilities on your player, pet, target, focus, party, and arena enemy frames.
  • Automatically displays the most important buffs/debuffs first.
  • Integrates directly with Blizzard unit frames.
  • Icons can be moved, resized, and made transparent.
  • Compatible with OmniCC.

New in 5.3:

  • Added Ring of Peace [Monk]
  • Added Hand of Protection [Paladin]
  • Fixed Storm Bolt [Warrior]
  • Added SyncFrames support

Known issues:

  • 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).

To Do:

  • Options profiles.
  • Button skinning.
  • Improve OmniCC support to work with all strata levels.
  • Blizzard raid frame support.
  • Pitbull support.
  • SUF support.

Here are some demonstration videos:

Here is a video that shows you how to edit the LUA file in order to add custom spells:

And here is a setup tutorial that shows you how to unlock the icon frames and move them around:

5.3:
Added Ring of Peace [Monk]
Added Hand of Protection [Paladin]
Fixed Storm Bolt [Warrior]
Added SyncFrames support

5.2:
Added Web Wrap (Shale Spider) [Hunter]
Fixed Fists of Fury [Monk]
Added Blood Horror [Warlock]
Removed Seduction (Grimoire of Sacrifice) [Warlock]
Added Warbringer (Snare) [Warrior]
Fixed issue with pet icon not hiding after pet is dismissed
Added option to hide arena enemy icons in battlegrounds

5.1:
Re-added support for Perl, XPerl, and LUI unit frames.
Added Bash (Force of Nature - Feral Treants) [Druid]
Added Entangling Roots (Force of Nature - Balance Treants) [Druid]
Added Lock Jaw (Dog) [Hunter]
Removed Beastial Wrath [Hunter pet]
Added Fists of Fury [Monk]
Added Fear (Glyph of Fear) [Warlock]
Added Infernal Awakening [Warlock]
Added Seduction (Grimoire of Sacrifice) [Warlock]
Added Spell Lock (Grimoire of Sacrifice) [Warlock]
Added Optical Blast (Observer) [Warlock]
Added Sluggish (Glyph of Hindering Strikes) [Warrior]
Added Storm Bolt [Warrior]
Improved the way unit frames register for events for better performance.
Added text labels to unlocked frames.
Added option to disable party icons while in battlegrounds. It is located on the "Party" options menu.

5.02:
Added Entangling Roots (Druid, Nature's Grasp)
Fixed Petrifying Gaze (Hunter pet, Basilisk)

5.01:
Added Pounce (Druid, Incarnation)
Added Lullaby (Hunter pet, Crane)
Added Paralyzing Quill (Hunter pet, Porcupine)
Added Petrifying Gaze (Hunter pet, Basilisk)
Added Holy Word: Chastise (Priest)
Added Dark Bargain (Warlock)
Fixed Fear (Warlock)
Fixed Arcane Torrent

5.0:
Updated for patch 5.0.
Now matches on spellId instead of spell name.
Added "Other" spell category.
Removed older PvE content spells.
Added spell priorities.
UNIT_AURA events now only generate one update call total instead of one per unit frame.
Reworked options menu.
Party and Arena Enemy frame settings can be changed for all frames in the group simultaneously.
Improved slash command parsing.
Added debug slash commands.
Temporarily removed support for non-Blizzard unit frames.

4.3:
Updated for patch 4.3.
Added pet frame support.
Added Portuguese language support.
Added LUI support (credit: Zerotorescue)

4.21:
Fixed spellID for Hungering Cold.

4.2:
TOC bump for patch 4.2.

4.1:
Updated for patch 4.1.
Added Bad Manner (Hunter pet).

4.08:
Added Ring of Frost (Mage).
Added Smoke Bomb (Rogue).
Added Shadowsnare (Glyph of Shadowflame) (Warlock).
Added Dispersion (Priest).
Updated German translation (credit: Morbis).
Updated Chinese translation (credit: 狂飙).

4.07:
Fixed Solar Beam (Druid).
Removed Ravage (Hunter).
Updated Chinese translation (credit: fatalerror).

4.06:
Added Axe Toss (Felguard).

4.05:
Added Grounding Totem to spell immunities.

4.04:
Added Unstable Affliction silence (Warlock).

4.03:
Fixed Seal of Justice (Paladin).

4.02:
Fixed settings not saving.
Removed Skull Bash (Druid).
Fixed Avenger's Shield (Paladin).

4.01:
Updated for patch 4.0.1 compatibility.
Added spell immunity tracking.

3.33:
Added Freezing Arrow Effect (Hunter)
Added Ferocious Butt (Icehowl)
Fixed: Unlock option only shows enabled frames.

3.32:
Fixed bug on startup when updating settings from older version.
Fixed possible bug with tracking options on non-English clients.
Immunity tracking no longer tracks self.

3.31:
Fixed bug on startup when settings file doesn't exist.
Fixed bug where a buff could appear as a debuff (Impact).
Turned off immunity tracking by default (consumes less CPU time).
Small performance improvements.

3.3:
Updated for patch 3.3 compatibility.
Graceful upgrade from 3.22 (settings won't reset).
Removed Improved Fire Nova Totem spell ID.
Changed Target and Focus portrait frame references to match Blizzard's.
Added immunity effect tracking (Bladestorm, Divine Shield, Ice Block, The Beast Within).
Removed strata options (too buggy atm).
Fixed frames not hiding at start.
Added basic command line options:
/lc reset
/lc lock
/lc unlock
/lc enable <unit>
/lc disable <unit>
where <unit> can be: player, target, focus, party1 ... party4, arena1 ... arena5

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.

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File Name Release Type Game Version Downloads Date
LoseControl 5.3 Release5.3.052,28905/22/2013
LoseControl 5.2 Release5.2.078,24303/06/2013
LoseControl 5.1 Release5.1.066,07801/07/2013
LoseControl 5.1 Beta5.0.52,34611/02/2012
LoseControl 5.02 Release5.0.5112,49610/10/2012
LoseControl 5.0 Release5.0.563,63609/16/2012
LoseControl 4.3 Release4.3211,64012/26/2011
LoseControl 4.21 Release4.2114,14506/29/2011
LoseControl 4.2 Release4.28,98206/29/2011
LoseControl 4.1 Release4.139,61705/17/2011
LoseControl 4.08 Release4.0.666,83102/10/2011
LoseControl 4.07 Release4.0.135,71711/13/2010
LoseControl 4.06 Release4.0.113,52410/30/2010
LoseControl 4.05 Release4.0.15,80210/29/2010
LoseControl 4.04 Release4.0.14910/28/2010
LoseControl 4.03 Release4.0.114810/26/2010
LoseControl 4.02 Release4.0.15810/21/2010
LoseControl 4.01 Release4.0.129810/18/2010
LoseControl 3.33 Release3.3.023,81503/01/2010
LoseControl 3.32 Release3.3.033901/23/2010
LoseControl 3.31 Release3.3.07412/17/2009
LoseControl 3.3 Release3.3.059612/09/2009
LoseControl 3.22 Release3.2.028910/03/2009
LoseControl 1.42 Release3.1.011907/31/2009
LoseControl 1.41 Release3.1.01405/12/2009
LoseControl 1.4 Release3.1.05004/24/2009
LoseControl 1.31 Release3.0.95202/26/2009
LoseControl 1.3 Release3.0.81302/02/2009
LoseControl 1.23 Release3.0.32301/06/2009
LoseControl 1.12 Release3.0.36212/08/2008
LoseControl 1.01 Release3.0.331611/24/2008
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  • Posted 3/7/2013 6:46:12 PM #501
    Kouri
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    • Posts: 136

    That Storm Bolt is a PvE version of the spell, correct? I can add it to the "PvE" category.

    I will add Hand of Protection to the "Other" category, since it is not a CC immunity.

    I assume that spellId for Ring of Peace is not the actual debuff you get when you are disarmed or silenced. Those are the spellIds that you will need.

    Thanks for the help,

  • Posted 4/13/2013 11:13:27 AM #516
    Wakko89
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    • Posts: 1
    Quote from osborn »

    No,

    http://www.wowdb.com/spells/132169-storm-bolt

    is the stun debuff on a target, if a warrior use its t6 talent. Its not pve, its for pvp.

    And

    http://www.wowdb.com/spells/140023-ring-of-peace

    is the debuff, if a enemy stand in the ring of a monk. The monk self has the buff

    http://www.wowdb.com/spells/116844-ring-of-peace

    and

    http://www.wowdb.com/spells/137460-silenced

    is the silence you get, after casting a harmfull spell in the ring.

    PS: Can you get the effect type of a buff or debuff ingame, like wowdb gets its data? I dont know how wowdb gets its effect type data, maybe its not possible ingame, i dont know, but for example:

    http://www.wowdb.com/spells/1715-hamstring

    has effect type

    Decrease Run Speed

    Mechanic: snared

    Amount: 50%

    How they get this data?

    PPS: I think its better for all, if you work together with

    http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/gladiatorlossa

    there's also the disarm effect "Disarmed": http://www.wowhead.com/spell=137461

  • Posted 3/10/2013 6:19:39 AM #507
    Kouri
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    • Posts: 136

    Thanks for clarifying the spells for me. As far as I know there is no way to get the spell effects from in game using the API. WowDB likely gets its information from datamining the MPQ files.

  • Posted 3/9/2013 10:56:09 AM #506
    osborn
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    • Posts: 15

    No,

    http://www.wowdb.com/spells/132169-storm-bolt

    is the stun debuff on a target, if a warrior use its t6 talent. Its not pve, its for pvp.

    And

    http://www.wowdb.com/spells/140023-ring-of-peace

    is the debuff, if a enemy stand in the ring of a monk. The monk self has the buff

    http://www.wowdb.com/spells/116844-ring-of-peace

    and

    http://www.wowdb.com/spells/137460-silenced

    is the silence you get, after casting a harmfull spell in the ring.

    PS: Can you get the effect type of a buff or debuff ingame, like wowdb gets its data? I dont know how wowdb gets its effect type data, maybe its not possible ingame, i dont know, but for example:

    http://www.wowdb.com/spells/1715-hamstring

    has effect type

    Decrease Run Speed

    Mechanic: snared

    Amount: 50%

    How they get this data?

    PPS: I think its better for all, if you work together with

    http://www.curse.com/addons/wow/gladiatorlossa

    Last edited by osborn on 3/10/2013 12:05:24 AM
  • Posted 3/6/2013 1:14:06 AM #497
    prowessjen
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    • Posts: 13

    please update this great addon :P

  • Posted 2/27/2013 7:20:18 PM #496
    osborn
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    • Posts: 15

    Thank for this addon, its great.

    Can you please make difference between the following:

    stun immun
    snare/root immun
    stun
    physical immun

    ?


  • Posted 2/26/2013 10:28:35 AM #495
    Syxrail
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    • Posts: 7

    Hi. Love the addon, would appreciate if you made it so that the Arena Enemy icons could be made invisible during battlegrounds as well. i have them unhooked from the arena frames, and BGs like Temple of Kotmogu and the FC maps use the arena frames to display enemies now, so it's a similar issue where if you aren't using arena frames, you still get displays of the CC they are under without the context of who its on (gladius is not visible during a BG)

  • Posted 3/7/2013 6:47:35 PM #502
    Kouri
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    • Posts: 136

    Added in the latest version, please test and let me know if it's not working. Thanks,

  • Posted 3/8/2013 3:07:47 PM #505
    Syxrail
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    • Posts: 7

    Seems to work great, thanks! 

  • Posted 2/23/2013 6:57:36 PM #494
    Highmoon7
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    • Posts: 3

    I'm having issues adjusting the size of icons for party members. no matter how big I set it the size remain the same.

  • Posted 2/13/2013 7:47:21 PM #490
    Shnazy
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    • Posts: 2

    I completely love LC, its amazing. I just recently started healing, so dispellable cc tracking is something I am having issues with tracking with the basic wow ui. LC was working perfectly while using the wow raid frames, I had them placed over the frames so that the cc would appear right on top, making it impossible to miss. However, even with the keep groups together, I'm running into issues with it rearranging the party in arenas.

    I use suf for all of my other bars, and I know you are working on supporting it, but I don't want so much support for it, as a way to put the squares over it. I stopped using the wow raid frames and changed the suf party frames to look like the wow raid frames. I now am running into the issue of suf being pulled the the front of the screen, where LC is farther back, making it impossible for me to sit the squares over top the frames. Is there any way to make that possible. I have searched everywhere and can't seem to find an answer. Thanks for any help with this issue.

  • Posted 2/13/2013 9:02:39 PM #493
    Shnazy
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    • Posts: 2

    Thank you for the quick response Kouri, I thought it might be a little more complicated then I thought.

     

  • Posted 2/13/2013 8:17:20 PM #491
    Kouri
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    • Posts: 136

    I think the problem with changing the frame strata to be higher than the SUF frames is that it will break the cooldown count and/or spiral. It's been a while since I've messed with it so my memory is a little fuzzy, but that's why that feature was removed previously and I never got it working. It would probably be easier to just add support for SUF but that would take some time.

    I think the party frames not matching up with the raid frames can be solved by adding support for raid icons. It's on my to-do list but I don't know when I'll have time to work on that.

  • Posted 1/29/2013 8:27:15 AM #489
    devonrex55
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    • Posts: 1

    Hi, first of all thank you for this wonderful addon, I am a random battleground enthusiast who has been using LC for the past 1+ years.

    It seems Blizzard employees also think highly of LC, as they have apparently added a loss of control feature to the official UI.  I can only hope that before they made the decision to do this, someone at Blizzard at least had the courtesy to send you, the addon author, a personalized letter of thanks or ask for your opinion on this inclusion.  

    The reality is that Blizzard benefits financially from authors like you donate their free time to invent great new features (like LC) and code polished addons that demonstrate their value.  While they are perfectly within their rights to make whatever changes they wish without thanking or consulting addon authors (and I understand their legal department may discourage them from thanking authors for fear any direct acknowledgement of their work could be used as ammunition in an intellectual property lawsuit), for Blizzard to duplicate LoseControl's features (without any acknowledgement of the original author) should make any wow subscriber or potential addon author ask themselves if they want to incentivize such treatment by continuing to donate their time or paying subscription fees to the game.

    To the real point of my post:  Would it be possible to update the addon description to include a section contrasting the features/benefits of LoseControl with those in the default UI?  I would imagine that's probably the number one question people who use this addon will have now.  

    I'm hopeful there's still a place for LoseControl since Blizzard is notoriously slow/bad at polish and frequency of updates to their default UI features.  Thank you.

    Last edited by devonrex55 on 1/29/2013 8:27:40 AM
  • Posted 2/13/2013 8:19:13 PM #492
    Kouri
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    • Posts: 136

    Thanks for the suggestions. I agree it could use a description update as well as some new screenshots.

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