Ring of Fire, gone.
Lightning Storm, gone.

FXStop installs the same way as any SotA Lua addon — unzip it into your Lua folder. A short backup step first means an update can never cost you your existing setup.

1. Back up your Lua folder first. In your file explorer, right-click your Lua folder → Send to → Compressed (zipped) folder, then rename the result with today's date, e.g. Lua-backup-20260725.zip. If anything ever goes wrong with an update, you can restore from this instead of losing your whole addon setup.
2. Find your Lua folder. You don't need to hunt through Program Files — log into SotA and type /datafolder into local chat. This opens the folder where SotA stores all of its files. Your Lua folder is right inside it.
3. Download the release. Grab the latest FXStop release zip from the addon's forum thread.
4. Unzip into place. Extract the release so fxstop.lua and the fxstop folder both land directly inside your Lua folder, alongside any other addons you already have installed.

SotA has a built-in Lua Script manager. This is where you load, enable, and reload every addon — including FXStop.

1. Log in and open the Lua Script manager from the game menu.
2. If you unzipped FXStop before logging in, it'll already be listed here — skip to step 4.
3. If it's not showing (for example, you unzipped it while already logged in), click Reload Scripts. This tells the manager to look for new or changed addon files.
4. Once FXStop appears in the list, click On to enable it. FXStop depends on the SotA Event System (SES) addon — make sure that one shows as On too.

Once enabled, a small tray icon appears on screen — this is home base for the whole addon. It starts out expanded, so you'll see the full icon right away.

Clicking the tray icon opens "FX Stop" — this is where you manage every blockable effect and the debug logging level.

Every row shows a skill's display name and its current status — Allowed or Blocked. Click anywhere on the status to flip it.

Every effect FXStop knows how to block is listed by its real skill name — no fx-keys to memorize in the window UI.

• Allowed — the effect plays normally, exactly as if you didn't have FXStop installed.
• Blocked — FXStop silently prevents that effect from playing, from your perspective only. Other players still see their own copy of the effect.

If you've got more effects than fit on screen at once, the up and down arrows on the right of the list scroll it — drag the scrollbar thumb directly for a longer list instead of clicking the arrows repeatedly.

The button at the top of the main window cycles through three logging levels.

• 0 (default) — silent. No extra chat messages.
• 1 & 2 — print a message to local chat every time an effect plays or gets stopped. Useful if an effect isn't blocking the way you expect and you want to confirm FXStop is actually seeing it trigger.

Click the button to cycle 0 → 1 → 2 → back to 0.

Every FXStop window shares one font-size control, shown as a number in its title bar.

Click it to cycle through sizes if the default text is too small or too large for you. It resizes buttons, text, and layout consistently across every window — not just the words.

Prefer typing to clicking? Every FXStop feature is also reachable from local chat.

!fxstop help

Prints the full list of available commands directly into local chat.

For example, to block Lightning Storm:

!fxstop stop lightningStorm

You'll see a confirmation in the chat log that the block has been enabled.