Massive .lua errors amount when getting crowd controlled with Loss of Control Alerts on

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Since 10.0.0 I’m having issue with Loss of Control Alerts option. When I enable it and get crowd controlled (feared, stunned etc), it produces errors related to Blizzard addons:

"Interface/FrameXML/LossOfControlFrame.lua:85: bad argument #1 to ‘SetAlpha’ (Usage: self:SetAlpha(alpha))
[string “=[C]”]: in function `SetAlpha’
[string “@Interface/FrameXML/LossOfControlFrame.lua”]:85: in function <Interface/FrameXML/LossOfControlFrame.lua:77>

Locals:
(*temporary) = LossOfControlFrame {
0 =
AbilityName = FontString {
}
startTime = 397477.375000
RedLineTop = Texture {
}
blackBg = Texture {
}
Cooldown = Cooldown {
}
priority = 5
fadeTime = 1.483000
Anim = AnimationGroup {
}
TimeLeft = Frame {
}
RedLineBottom = Texture {
}
Icon = Texture {
}
spellID = 242391
}
(*temporary) = 2.966000"

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This error troubled me since the prepatch. Tried to pinpoint addon causing this, but even with disabled addons error was still happening. I finally got rid of it tonight.

There are lots of ways to test it. Personally I tested it in Skettis in Spires of Arak zone (Draenor). There’s mob called Skyreach Dawnbreaker acompanied by small bird Solar Familiar. If you kill them Solar Familiar will cast blinding spell called Flash Bankg on you causing mentioned error every time.
I turned off addon managers, moved my WTF, Interface and Cache folders to some other folder and started game without addons. Killed mob, got error.

Then I typed: **/console cvar_default**

[Edit] WARNING: it may reset a lot of settings to default values. Settings you may not want to reset. Please read the thread further for more detailed solution.

Received monit about not having permission to perform that function. However.
When I killed mob after that there was no error. Finally! After month of dealing with it.
TL;DR
Try /console cvar_default command.

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Do you know by any chance if this will override some of the settings addons use (in other words: will it reset some addons settings)?

That’s interesting, because I was thinking about doing it for one of my other issues with Blizzard UI. I already experienced issue with large fps drop/spike after targeting anything in the world and reverting some cvar settings did help (not sure which one was it though).

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I wish people would stop passing that out, as it causes more problems than it fixes, because it resets ALL saved variables, including the hidden ones set by Blizzard themselves.

Really and truly, in my opinion, that command should only be run if a GM tells you to. Not a Blue, or a player.

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I think I have found it. I didn’t reset cvars for two reasons, because of what Trovlak wrote above and because I don’t want to lose all settings.

For me, the cvar responsible for massive errors with Loss of Control Alerts was this ‘lossofcontrolfull’, for some reason it was set to 1, while the default is 2. Setting it to default value seems to have fixed that. I suspect this has something to do with interface options rearrangement, since there was no issue until recent patch.

I tested it on Hailstone Construct (raid boss in Drustvar), since it’s easy to reach and his stun still has 100% chance to hit.

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Hey,
I’m glad you were able to pinpoint the exact setting.

I agree with Trovlak that the command shouldn’t be mentioned openly as a general remedy. People might just try it without reading the post.
That was not my intention. I took it from the blue post about resetting UI settings and it was marked as advanced configuration.

However I tried to find some information about the error troubling me for a month now. The only post I found about it was on US forums and it stays without reply for over 4 weeks now. So when I saw your post I decided to share what helped in my case.

I must also add that I made a copy of WTF, Interface and Cache folders before running the command and put them back after running it. No addons settings were lost as far as I can tell. Some settings from blizzard options were reverted to default tho (like numbers for cooldowns, class colors for raid ui, camera movement, etc.). I have to set those for every new toon anyway. That’s not an issue compared to getting that error every time I get stunned/feared/blinded etc.

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As far as I know cvar settings are stored server side, so be careful doing anything. It’s indeed advanced configuration.

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I’m having the exact same issue and I was wondering where I can find the lossofcontrolfull setting? I tried searching it everywhere and couldn’t find the right folder… =/

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Download addon called Advanced Interface Options, there’s a cvar search bar there. If you’re not experienced, best to not touch anything else, this is advanced configuration and can break many things.

You could propably also use this command instead:

/run SetCVar(“lossofcontrolfull”, GetCVarDefault(“lossofcontrolfull”))

or

/console cvar_default lossofcontrolfull

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Thanks for the answer! I really appreciate it :]

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