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Version: 3.2.0
by: RunningDuck [More]
Sorcerer Helper
An addon for sorcerers that reminds you to keep your minions and buffs up, alerts you with a countdown when Crystal Fragments proc, and countdown for quite a few of your abilities with a duration.
Available for non-Sorcs, but currently only for common skills (no class skills except for Sorcerers yet).


Features
  • Alerts and Procs display a countdown of seconds remaining
  • Two display modes:
    • Two types of icons: Reminders (buffs) and Alerts & Procs, in two different windows
    • In slot order, for example it can be placed just above the skill bar
  • Scaleable icon sizes, for example alert icons twice the size of reminder icons
  • All abilities (buffs, procs & alerts) can be individually turned on or off
  • Option to hide when in menus
  • Option to show repositioning help, otherwise the position is locked
  • Selectable if it should load for non-sorcerer characters
  • Selectable if settings should be account wide (like today) or for each character (new in 2.5.1)
  • Sorcerer / Dark Magic
    • Crystal Fragments (proc)
    • Encase
    • Rune Prison
  • Sorcerer / Daedric Summoning
    • Unstable Familiar (buff)
    • Daedric Curse
    • Summons Winged Twilight (buff)
    • Bound Armor (buff)
    • Conjured Ward
  • Sorcerer / Storm Calling
    • Mages' Fury
    • Lightning Form
    • Lightning Splash
    • Surge
    • Bolt Escape
  • Weapon / Destruction Staff
    • Weakness of Elements
    • Wall of Elements (new in 2.5.0)
  • Weapon / Restoration Staff
    • Steadfast Ward
  • World / Soul Magic
    • Soul Trap
  • Guild / Fighters Guild
    • Expert Hunter
  • Guild / Mages Guild
    • Mage's Light (buff)
    • Entropy
  • Alliance War/ Assault
    • Magicka Detonation

Controls
  • Set "Show repositioning help" to ON in the settings
  • Left-click and drag to reposition the windows
  • Set "Show repositioning help" to OFF in the settings to get rid of the repositioning windows and lock the icons

Known Issues
  • Expert Hunter countdown doesn't extend (as the actual ability do)
  • Daedric Curse timer tracks from when it was cast, not from when it affects the target. As such, it might be off by a second or two depending on the distance to the target.
  • Timers need fine-tuning, for example some now depend also on skill rank
  • Ligtning Splash does not do a good job to detect when the cast is aborted and usually display countdown anyway
  • If you use redefine keys to mouse buttons, the abilities that is solely detected by the key detection routine will fail to be detected
  • Sometimes at load of new scene or mount/dismount, a timer might display in large icon. Remedy is to toogle the ability
  • There is a small memory leak, so after some time you might have to give command /RELOADUI to clear it out.

Possible Future Features
  • More abilities with a duration
  • Modify Mage's Fury depending on targets health above/below 20%
  • Display countdowns in time order, i.e. 1 sec left before the one with 2 sec left
  • Add class skills for non-sorcerers, for example:
    • Show proc for Nightblade assasins Merciful Resolve (similar to Crystal Fragments)
  • Summoned creature HP display (currently not possible as far as I know due to limitations in the game API)
  • Summoned pets now have abilities/buffs that can be activated. If game API allows tracking of this on the pets (I have some doubts) these could also be shown with a timer kind of like how daedric curse works. For example:
    • Familiar Damage Pulse (4 sec PBAOE)
    • Empower Twilight Tormentor (15 second 50% damage buff to pet)
  • Cosmetic issue when you scale the icons to 100%, you can see the border frame. If you scale it bigger, you can't see this any more. Maybe add an option to show/hide border and let it scale with the ability icon size.

Acknowledgments
Continued version of SorcererHelper by stjobe (1.1.13 from 09/18/14).
Suggestion and part of code for per character settings: Baertram
3.2.0 Adapted to Clockwork City (Update 16 - game version 3.2 - API 21) and LibAddonMenu 2.0 r25

3.1.0 Adapted to Horns of the Reach (Update 15 - game version 3.1 - API 20) and LibAddonMenu 2.0 r24

2.8.1 Bump to API 19 (and embarrassingly not even tested)

2.8.0 Adapted to Homestead (Update 13 - game version 2.7 - API 18) and LibAddonMenu 2.0 r23
Fixed that Bound Armor and Conjured Ward have swapped places in this update
Fixed that Velocious Curse (Daedric Curse morph) changed name to Haunting Curse and time to 8.5s
Fixed that Crystal Fragments proc didn't show if non-sorc was enabled

2.7.1 Adapted to addition of Ultimate skills for weapons. Are these skills useful to have an alert with countdown?
2.7.0 Adapted to One Tamriel (Update 12 -game version 2.6.0 - API 17)

2.6.0 Adapted to Shadows of the Hist (Update 11 -game version 2.5.5 - API 16)

2.5.2 Updated some durations like Annulment (thanks Tim), Boundless storm (thanks Luciana) and a few more I found.
2.5.1 Added support for per character settings, as suggested and shown by Baertram. Hopefully also Elemental Blockade (morph of Wall of Elements) work properly (hope Luciana can confirm).
2.5.0 Adapted to Dark Brotherhood (game version 2.5 and API 15). Added support for Destruction Staff - Wall of Elements

2.3.1 Correctly adapted to LibAddonMenu-2.0 r20 ?
2.3.1 Adapted to LibAddonMenu-2.0 r20
2.3.0 Adapted to Thieves Guild (game version 2.3 and API 14). Fixed timer for Proximity Detonation (morph of Magicka Detonation)

2.2.2 Added timer for Magicka Detonation (Alliance War/Assault), at least I hope so as I can't test myself
2.2.1 Adapted to Orsinium (game version 2.2.4 and API 13)
2.2.0 Allowed for non-Sorcs, for the common skills

2.1.8 Updated quite a few durations after the update, for example Surge
2.1.7 Detects re-proc of Crystal Fragments (but are there cases where it fails to detect a proc entirely, please give feedback)
2.1.5 Adapted to Update 7 (game version 1.7.0). Removed detection of Crystal Fragment proc based on magicka cost, as other methods seems to work properly, and the cost-based sometimes did not.

2.1.4 New abilities: Lightning Splash. Hopefully better ability to detect Crystal Proc in special cases. Either show repositioning and allow move, or hide repositioning and lock icons
2.1.3 Unslotted but still active alerts are now shown. Repositioning window no longer interfere with clickable objects (like unlocking a chest). Fade out of an icon should no longer repeat indefinitely on any machine.
2.1.2 Bugfix for unmorphed Lightning Form or Daedric Curse
2.1.1 Display option for skill bar order. Icon scaling. New abilities: Conjured Ward, Encase, Rune Prison, Mages' Fury, Weakness of Elements, Entropy, Soul Trap, and maybe Bolt Escape and Steadfast Ward
2.1.0 Beta version
2.0.1 Can lock position of alert and reminder windows in settings
2.0.0 Update 6 required quite some more changes and now it should have a (much?) better key detection routine
1.2.2 Adapted to LibAddonMenu-2.0 r17
1.2.1 Adapted to Update 6 (game version 1.6.5)
1.2.0 Adapted to Update 5 (game version 1.5.2) and LibAddonMenu 2.0 r16
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Unread 06/20/19, 03:55 AM  
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Will ESO ban me for using this?
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Unread 01/06/19, 12:13 AM  
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Originally Posted by Alessondria
Yep it doesn't work at all anymore. I really really hope this gets updated
I found a way to get the Crystal Frag proc notification working. Opening SorcererHelper.lua in notepad, using ctrl+F to search for "if cost > (SH.AB[ability][abCost] + 1) * 3/4 then" and changing the "3/4" to "1/2" worked for me. Idk about any other functions of the addon, nor do I know if this change will have any bugs, as I honestly don't know the first thing about programming, but I figured I'd share this in case anybody wants to still try to use this to track their Crystal Frag procs.
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Yep it doesn't work at all anymore. I really really hope this gets updated
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Originally Posted by Sylvania
Stopped working after Update 17. The menu works, I get no LUA errors, and when I turn on the placeholders, they also appear, but the mod does not show any procs/effects/durations.
The same thing has been happening on my computer system, too.

Running Duck has not maintained this add-on since version 3.2.0 was uploaded on 12/03/2017. I've asked the ESOUI administrators to contact him regarding whether he intends to resume maintaining the add-on.

Either it or something like it is sorely needed for Sorcs, especially with all of the ability durations which ZOS has reduced to six seconds. .....
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Unread 02/13/18, 09:04 AM  
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Stopped working after Update 17. The menu works, I get no LUA errors, and when I turn on the placeholders, they also appear, but the mod does not show any procs/effects/durations.
Last edited by Sylvania : 02/13/18 at 04:34 PM.
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Unread 01/08/18, 11:45 PM  
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Love the mod and thank you! I like having a warning when I forget to summon my pet because I'm derp like that

But would it be possible to add the nightblade's Grim Focus and its morphs to the list? It would be nice to have the counter for the bow proc somewhere more visible like you do for crystal frags.

Thanks again!
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Unread 12/04/17, 12:26 PM  
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I know that you are aware of the memory leak issues with this addon, but I was just wondering why it seems it can't be fixed, or is it a problem on the clients end? I really love this addon but having the FPS hiccup after an hour or so is unfortunate
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Unread 12/03/17, 09:55 AM  
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Update for 3.2

Updated to support game version 3.2
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Unread 10/11/17, 04:29 PM  
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Updated for 3.1

Is there any way that the conflict between Miat's PVP Alerts and Sorcerer Helper could be looked at? I find it challenging to go without Sorcerer Helper in PvP just because it conflicts with a must-have PvP add-on. While I have gotten better at looking for my glowing gauntlets to indicate crystal frags proc'ing, it is by no means the same without sorcerer helper.
Originally Posted by choekstr
Ahh, brilliant, I too also just decided to try that out as I need caltrops and have to do some PvP. You are a lifesaver as it has been hell without SorcHelper! Thanks for identifying the problem.

Originally Posted by Nebarius
Decided to try the Miat's pvp addon, then i suddenly got the exact same errormsg you did.
Disabled Miats, Sorcerer Helper back in business
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Unread 09/28/17, 07:53 PM  
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One issue and one suggestion

Hello,

thank you for this awesome mod!
I am using it and have noticed my Liquid Lightning IV has a duration of 10 seconds (I also use the ActionDurationReminder and its counter starts at 10 too). However Sorcerer Helper starts at 8 seconds. The counter ends and I still see the spell on the ground.


Moreover, some posts below, the Author says it's "unlikely" the API gives Volatile Familiar ability duration countdown. The Srendarr mod shows it with no problem, so there is some way to do that.

I can provide screenshots as needed.
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Unread 08/26/17, 05:06 AM  
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Show missing instead of buff timer

First, thanks a lot for this add-on, which I use mainly for the crystal frag proc - works better than the proc detection of S'rendarr and lets me punch an icon into my face so I don't miss it.

Question: is it possible to change some self buff stuff to missing instead of a counter?

Use case: I'd like to get a large icon somewhere if my surge is down, or if my ward isn't up. We have a lot of possibilities to track our buff/debuff counters with S'rendarr or whatever - but there's no "Man you don't have XYZ up" add-on - or at least I didn't find it.

Probably could modify Sorcerer Helper myself, as there has to be some similar code for e.g. bound aegis, but I guess this could be interestingting for other people too.

If this is already possible - please tell me how, as I'm obviously too silly to figure out myself.

Cheers
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Re: Re: Re: Updated for 3.1

Ahh, brilliant, I too also just decided to try that out as I need caltrops and have to do some PvP. You are a lifesaver as it has been hell without SorcHelper! Thanks for identifying the problem.

Originally Posted by Nebarius
Decided to try the Miat's pvp addon, then i suddenly got the exact same errormsg you did.
Disabled Miats, Sorcerer Helper back in business
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Re: Re: Updated for 3.1

Decided to try the Miat's pvp addon, then i suddenly got the exact same errormsg you did.
Disabled Miats, Sorcerer Helper back in business


Originally Posted by choekstr
Ok, update: Seems to throw the identical error on my sorc and a couple non sorc chars (magDK), magTemp so far of the chars I have tested. I confirmed I have the 3.1.0 update as the .lua file has SH.displayVersion = "3.1.0"

Code:
user:/AddOns/SorcererHelper/SorcererHelper.lua:498: function expected instead of nil
stack traceback:
    user:/AddOns/SorcererHelper/SorcererHelper.lua:498: in function 'SH.ResetScales'
    user:/AddOns/SorcererHelper/SorcererHelper.lua:480: in function 'SH.CreateUI'
    user:/AddOns/SorcererHelper/SorcererHelper.lua:984: in function 'OnPlayerActivated'
Originally Posted by RunningDuck
Version 3.1.0 is adapted to Horns of the Reach (Update 15 - game version 3.1 - API 20) and LibAddonMenu 2.0 r24. Rudimentary test of it seemed OK.

Now I can't trigger the fault reported by several (choekstr, lostsk8r, etc). If you still see it please tell me!

I prioritized to follow the update this time, and need some time to look into the many great suggested improvements.
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Re: Updated for 3.1

Ok, update: Seems to throw the identical error on my sorc and a couple non sorc chars (magDK), magTemp so far of the chars I have tested. I confirmed I have the 3.1.0 update as the .lua file has SH.displayVersion = "3.1.0"

Code:
user:/AddOns/SorcererHelper/SorcererHelper.lua:498: function expected instead of nil
stack traceback:
    user:/AddOns/SorcererHelper/SorcererHelper.lua:498: in function 'SH.ResetScales'
    user:/AddOns/SorcererHelper/SorcererHelper.lua:480: in function 'SH.CreateUI'
    user:/AddOns/SorcererHelper/SorcererHelper.lua:984: in function 'OnPlayerActivated'
Originally Posted by RunningDuck
Version 3.1.0 is adapted to Horns of the Reach (Update 15 - game version 3.1 - API 20) and LibAddonMenu 2.0 r24. Rudimentary test of it seemed OK.

Now I can't trigger the fault reported by several (choekstr, lostsk8r, etc). If you still see it please tell me!

I prioritized to follow the update this time, and need some time to look into the many great suggested improvements.
Last edited by choekstr : 08/21/17 at 01:15 PM.
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Updated for 3.1

Version 3.1.0 is adapted to Horns of the Reach (Update 15 - game version 3.1 - API 20) and LibAddonMenu 2.0 r24. Rudimentary test of it seemed OK.

Now I can't trigger the fault reported by several (choekstr, lostsk8r, etc). If you still see it please tell me!

I prioritized to follow the update this time, and need some time to look into the many great suggested improvements.
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