CCAlarm

Warns loudly when your healer or tank is crowd-controlled.

In Mythic+, the second nobody notices the healer is stunned is often the second that wipes the group. CCAlarm puts it where you cannot miss it: red warning text at the top centre of your screen, the icons of the active effects with their remaining time counting down underneath, and a sound.

Healer and tank get separate sounds, so you know who was hit without looking.

Why this is harder than it sounds

Detecting crowd control on other players is genuinely difficult in Midnight, and it is worth explaining what CCAlarm does differently.

What remains is a list of spell IDs — and almost every addon in this space hardcodes one. A hardcoded list is wrong the day a patch ships and stays wrong until someone updates it.

CCAlarm learns its list instead. LOSS_OF_CONTROL_ADDED fires whenever you are controlled, and it carries Blizzard's own classification (locType) together with the spell ID. Whatever stuns you in a dungeon also stuns the healer and the tank in that same dungeon — so the list fills itself as you play and then covers your whole group.

So the first encounter is not wasted, any unknown harmful aura seen on a healer or tank is recorded as a candidate. /ccalarm candidates lists them by name and ID, ready to be promoted with a single command.

SCHOOL_INTERRUPT and DISARM are deliberately never learned — neither stops anyone from moving or healing, and alerting on them would only add noise.

Getting started

1. Copy the CCAlarm folder into Interface/AddOns/.
2. Restart WoW completely. New addons are only read at startup; a /reload is not enough.
3. Run /ccalarm test for a five-second dummy alert, so position and sound are right before it matters.

There is nothing to configure up front. It works out of the box.

Configuration

Everything is adjustable in game under Options → AddOns → CCAlarm, or with /ccalarm config:

While unlocked the frame is tinted so you can grab it even with no alarm running. The complete anchor is saved, so the display returns to the same spot after a resolution or UI scale change.

Sounds

Eight sounds ship with the addon, addressed through SOUNDKIT so they need no files at all. Anything other addons have registered with LibSharedMedia appears in the list on top of those.

Slash commands

German aliases work as well (einstellungen, liste, kandidaten, dazu, weg, leeren, an, aus).

No dependencies

CCAlarm ships everything it needs. LibStub, CallbackHandler-1.0 and LibSharedMedia-3.0 are embedded — no other addon is required. Because LibStub shares libraries, a newer copy from another addon wins automatically, and fonts or sounds registered by other addons simply show up in the lists as a bonus. A test in the build pipeline enforces that this stays true.

Limitations

Stated plainly, so nobody relies on something the addon cannot do:

• The list starts empty. It fills as effects hit you for the first time, or as you promote candidates.
• Private auras and some encounter mechanics are invisible to addons. What Blizzard hides, this addon cannot see either.
• Group members only. For yourself, WoW already draws its own loss-of-control display in the middle of your screen.
• Roles come from the group role assignment (UnitGroupRolesAssigned). A member without an assigned role is not watched.

Languages

English and German. English is the primary language; missing keys fall back to English rather than showing a blank.

Built to be trusted

CCAlarm ships with a test harness that stubs the WoW API, so the addon can be verified without launching the game. It asserts both directions — that the alarm fires when it should, and that it stays silent when it should: for damage dealers, unknown spells, sub-second auras, a dead healer, raid instances, and when switched off. Every push runs those checks, and a release is refused if any of them fails.

Source, issues and feedback: github.com/Sparxx947/CCAlarm Released under the MIT license.