Elkano's BuffBars
EBB provides groups of statusbar style indicators to show (de)buffs currently affecting your char or some other units (currently focus, pet and target). For the player, it can also show indicators for temporary enchants place on it's weapons.
Due to changes Blizzard made with WoW 4.x it's no longer possible to cancel buffs without the use of secure frames. Currently EBB limits canceling of buffs to out-of-fight since using SecureAuraHeader would have required a major code restructuring. This will be coming in a later version.
Version 2.x is a total recode based on the Ace2 framework which became necessary in order to support some of the longtime wanted and suggested features. It's now possible to show different groups of bars which can be configured in many ways. Each group can be assigned an individual look and filter settings. EBB can be configured via a dropdown menu which is accessible via chat (/ebb config), FuBar plugin or (for the group settings) by right clicking the groups anchor. After setting up a group, its anchor can be hidden by alt-left clicking a bar or the anchor itself in order to lock the group in place.
In order to get additional bar textures and fonts for EBB simply install SharedMedia which is available for download under http://wow.curse.com/downloads/wow-addons/details/sharedmedia.aspx
If you have bug reports or feature request, create a ticket: http://www.wowace.com/projects/elkbuffbars/create-ticket/
You can also check my thread at the WoWAce forums: http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=5290
The most recent development version of EBB is available directly from the WoWAce SVN via http://www.wowace.com/projects/elkbuffbars/files/
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Posted Sep 25, 2026Hey, with the lastest update to both either r225-alpha or r224-alpha it stopped working for me altogether.
I can't edit anything in the options and when it tracks a buff on a target (which is the only thing I want to track), the buffs stays and won't go away. '
And switching back to r220-alpha (which used to work until yesterday) isn't working as well, because the addon isn't appearing in the addon list.
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Posted Sep 23, 2026Ok so, with last update to r224-alpha i can now see only the elkano debuff frame which seems to be working properly (i haven't yet tested it into instanced environment)
But the elkanos buff frame is gone; upon my first log in today i had the default blizzard buff frame, i tried disable all addons but elkano and LibSharedMedia-3.0
I used the script provided in another commend and:
"/print LibStub("AceAddon-3.0"):GetAddon("ElkBuffBars").db.profile.hidebuffframe" was not recognized as valid so it did nothing
"/script LibStub("AceAddon-3.0"):GetAddon("ElkBuffBars").db.profile.hidebuffframe = true" did nothing apparently but it was recognized as valid by game(?)
As stated by DarkLimpan below i used the "/dump LibStub("AceAddon-3.0"):GetAddon("ElkBuffBars").db.profile.hidebuffframe " and the result was:
"Dump: value=LibStub("AceAddon-3.0"):GetAddon("ElkBuffBars").db.profile.hidebuffframe[1]=true", still nothing happened, i still don't see buff frame, not the elkano's one nor the blizzard default one, either with only elkano's addon enabled nor with all my other addons..
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Posted Sep 24, 2026@Dhisana The /print (was likely from another addon), /dump, /script stuff was only to toggle hiding of Blizzard's default frames when using an old profile. It doesn't affect the groups themselves.
Since you're saying you are seeing the debuff group, something is likely amiss but currently hard to tell what it could be, sorry. 😢
You should have some text in chat on login telling you how your old groups are converted and in the settings, you should already be seeing a dropdown listing the new groups.
If the buff group doesn't list in there, there might be something wrong with your old settings or the converter.
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Posted Sep 25, 2026@Elkano I don't know what to tell you, i may be a little bit dumb; here what i see:
https://imgur.com/a/oxPnNNI
https://imgur.com/kZJ9QwX
https://imgur.com/12i1AIa
Are the option on the right supposed to be interactable with? Nothing happens when i click on those...
I downloaded the r225-alpha this morning to try again after yesterday, the r224 shows a big red faded square on the right where the options are supposed to be.. Any other clue?
I'm going to stick with the r223 for the moment
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Posted Sep 25, 2026@Dhisana I'm currently working on the options, that's why the red squares are gone I had earlier as placeholder content in the scroll boxes; but r225 also uses a different kind of scrollbox; and what you currently see are only section headers not filled with options, yet.
The main category has some working options though, mainly to toggle Blizzard's aura frames.
Regarding your problem, the first screenshot (chat) "solves" it:
Your buff group was set up to show both buffs and weapon enchants. Since I can no longer sort them together in the same list, I settled for groups only supporting either buffs, debuffs or enchantments. However, when converting old settings, I picked just the first supported type for the group (as I can't easily split a group into two, especially if other groups are anchored to it). And in your case, the group was turned into one for Enchantments, leaving you with none for buffs 😢
Maybe I should at least give buffs priority, enchantments is easier for the user to re-add later 🤔
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Posted Sep 25, 2026@Elkano ooooh interesting, i see; i don't remember when, probably when i first set it up back in the day years ago, the addon used to have 3 windows, buffs debuffs and "enchantments" for weapon enchant, shaman weapon enchant and oil and stuff so, (as far as i can remember) i removed that window and toggled on those enchantments buff in my buff group so there is where the origin of the problem might be..
Thanks for the insight, i will wait for a working update :)
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Posted Sep 26, 2026@Elkano
This is what I'm seeing on my end (with r225-alpha reinstalled). I've had 5 bars since back in Wrath (although, I may have deleted a 6th bar many years ago, I don't remember).
https://imgur.com/a/WHxk7xK
Unfortunately, I can't take screenshots of the settings panels of my r223-alpha's legacy settings (not even /ebb config works on that version). :(
But I can go back and forth between these two versions, for the time being.
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Posted Sep 26, 2026@DarkLimpan So 5 legacy groups have been converted including their layouts.
Of these 5, 3 have been disabled though since for some reason they didn't have a type assigned (thus they appear as gray in the list).
What does the chat message on login/reload tell you? Can you do a screenshot of those as well?
On a side note: those are exactly the edge cases I'm looking for and one of the reasons why I don't persist converted data, yet. So thank you for telling me! 🙂
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Posted Sep 26, 2026@Elkano
This is what r225-alpha says on login (once I disable an addon that stops addon spam on login).
https://imgur.com/Ah38E7W
Let me know if there's anything else you want me to test?
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Posted Sep 26, 2026@DarkLimpan Ah, that explains why the info hadn't reach you: you never saw it! 😅 And you're likely not the only one with such a blocker, but that's a "pain" I'll likely accept.
For your buffs it's the same as with Dhisana above:
Your group had both buffs and temporary weapon enchantments and the profile converter had to pick one (and "failed"); next version will pick different for mixed groups: Buffs > Debuffs > Enchantments
For the other three, it at least looks like they had no active type set, maybe to temporarily disable them. Would have to check the old raw saved data to tell for sure, but I'll put some more details in the chat in the next version for debugging such cases.
So they ended up as disabled groups and are skipped for display. I'll try to at least preserve some of the filter settings in this case.
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Posted Sep 22, 2026Hi!
Love your addon, had been using it for over 10 years. Stopped playing Wow for quite some years, now planning to play Forever, but yet trying out game in Retail.
Got the following error on some hero at Login, and the below at Opening Settings.
Only got there Errors with a new hero (few days ago created) with separate Profile. When I set back to Default stopped these errors. Rest of the hero already using Default profile not got errors.
Using V224-Alpha version.
Message: Interface/AddOns/ElkBuffBars/v3/EbbSettings.lua:34: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil)
Time: Tue Sep 22 22:12:17 2026
Count: 1
Stack:
[Interface/AddOns/Bartender4/libs/AceAddon-3.0/AceAddon-3.0.lua]:523: in function 'EnableAddon'
[Interface/AddOns/Bartender4/libs/AceAddon-3.0/AceAddon-3.0.lua]:626: in function <...AddOns/Bartender4/libs/AceAddon-3.0/AceAddon-3.0.lua:611>
Locals:
self=<table>{
initializequeue=<table>
statuses=<table>
embeds=<table>
frame=AceAddon30Frame <AceAddon-3.0.lua:38>
addons=<table>
enablequeue=<table>
}
addon=<table>{
modules=<table>
db=<table>
defaultModuleLibraries=<table>
dataObject=<table>
baseName="ElkBuffBars"
enabledState=true
defaultModuleState=true
name="ElkBuffBars"
orderedModules=<table>
}
AceAddon=<table>{
initializequeue=<table>
statuses=<table>
embeds=<table>
frame=AceAddon30Frame <AceAddon-3.0.lua:38>
addons=<table>
enablequeue=<table>
}
Message: Interface/AddOns/ElkBuffBars/v3/EbbSettings.lua:34: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil)
Time: Tue Sep 22 22:12:17 2026
Count: 1
Stack:
[Interface/AddOns/Bartender4/libs/AceAddon-3.0/AceAddon-3.0.lua]:523: in function 'EnableAddon'
[Interface/AddOns/Bartender4/libs/AceAddon-3.0/AceAddon-3.0.lua]:626: in function <...AddOns/Bartender4/libs/AceAddon-3.0/AceAddon-3.0.lua:611>
Locals:
self=<table>{
initializequeue=<table>
statuses=<table>
embeds=<table>
frame=AceAddon30Frame <AceAddon-3.0.lua:38>
addons=<table>
enablequeue=<table>
}
addon=<table>{
modules=<table>
db=<table>
defaultModuleLibraries=<table>
dataObject=<table>
baseName="ElkBuffBars"
enabledState=true
defaultModuleState=true
name="ElkBuffBars"
orderedModules=<table>
}
AceAddon=<table>{
initializequeue=<table>
statuses=<table>
embeds=<table>
frame=AceAddon30Frame <AceAddon-3.0.lua:38>
addons=<table>
enablequeue=<table>
}
Message: Interface/AddOns/ElkBuffBars/v3/EbbSettings.lua:34: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil)
Time: Tue Sep 22 22:12:17 2026
Count: 1
Stack:
[Interface/AddOns/Bartender4/libs/AceAddon-3.0/AceAddon-3.0.lua]:523: in function 'EnableAddon'
[Interface/AddOns/Bartender4/libs/AceAddon-3.0/AceAddon-3.0.lua]:626: in function <...AddOns/Bartender4/libs/AceAddon-3.0/AceAddon-3.0.lua:611>
Locals:
self=<table>{
initializequeue=<table>
statuses=<table>
embeds=<table>
frame=AceAddon30Frame <AceAddon-3.0.lua:38>
addons=<table>
enablequeue=<table>
}
addon=<table>{
modules=<table>
db=<table>
defaultModuleLibraries=<table>
dataObject=<table>
baseName="ElkBuffBars"
enabledState=true
defaultModuleState=true
name="ElkBuffBars"
orderedModules=<table>
}
AceAddon=<table>{
initializequeue=<table>
statuses=<table>
embeds=<table>
frame=AceAddon30Frame <AceAddon-3.0.lua:38>
addons=<table>
enablequeue=<table>
}
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Posted Sep 21, 2026Version r224-alpha is giving me the following error and I don't have any buff bars, stock WoW or EBB
4x ElkBuffBars/v3/EbbSettings.lua:34: bad argument #1 to 'ipairs' (table expected, got nil)
[tail call]: ?
[C]: in function 'ipairs'
[ElkBuffBars/v3/EbbSettings.lua]:34: in function 'ApplyProfile'
[ElkBuffBars/v3/EbbSettings.lua]:21: in function 'SetDbProfile'
[ElkBuffBars/v3/ElkBuffBars.lua]:97: in function 'OnProfileEnable'
[ElkBuffBars/v3/ElkBuffBars.lua]:81: in function <ElkBuffBars/v3/ElkBuffBars.lua:80>
[C]: ?
[Ace3/AceAddon-3.0/AceAddon-3.0.lua]:66: in function <Ace3/AceAddon-3.0/AceAddon-3.0.lua:61>
[Ace3/AceAddon-3.0/AceAddon-3.0.lua]:523: in function 'EnableAddon'
[Ace3/AceAddon-3.0/AceAddon-3.0.lua]:626: in function <Ace3/AceAddon-3.0/AceAddon-3.0.lua:611>
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Posted Sep 20, 2026The print command didn't work it showed type /help for command but the /script command worked thanks :).
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Posted Sep 20, 2026I went back to version 223 because the new version doesn't turn off wow default buff.
Hope that helps some .
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Posted Sep 20, 2026@Toptek r224 is now reading the old DB flag for that.
It seems like your old settings didn't have it enabled; try the following in game:
/print LibStub("AceAddon-3.0"):GetAddon("ElkBuffBars").db.profile.hidebuffframe
It will likely print false, nil or nothing... at least not true.
/script LibStub("AceAddon-3.0"):GetAddon("ElkBuffBars").db.profile.hidebuffframe = true
and reloading your interface should "fix" that for you on r224
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Posted Sep 20, 2026@Elkano thank you, was having the same issue and this fixed it.
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Posted Sep 22, 2026@Elkano Hi there, this works in terms of turning off displaying the wow default buff bars, but you can't find any information about the buffs / debuffs if you hover over them. - thanks for all your work!
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Posted Sep 22, 2026@Elkano
Hello there.
That /print command didn't do anything (I got the error with /help, when a chat command doesn't work, instead). So, I should now run that /script command? Will I get back my old bar layout at that point (after the /reload), or am I meant to re-do everything from scratch? I'm just asking to make sure I'm understanding this new version correctly.
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Posted Sep 22, 2026@DarkLimpan The /print command seems to be from one of my installed addons 😅 maybe /dump works instead
This whole thing is however only related to the default buffs not being hidden for some.
If r224 isn't already showing bars similar to your old setup, there's something else going wrong.
I'm currently intentionally not overwriting any old settings until I'm able to convert them as good as reasonably possible (some advanced filters are still missing) and have the settings UI in place to further adjust them.
But even then, some parts like the white-/blacklist data will likely be lost (as I can't turn the names into ids); and others simply because they are no longer supportable.
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Posted Sep 23, 2026@Elkano
I see. All I am seeing are Blizzard's default buff bars, my old EBB layout seems gone (or hidden / not working correctly).
The below chat command gave me a "empty result" in chat.
/dump LibStub("AceAddon-3.0"):GetAddon("ElkBuffBars").db.profile.hidebuffframe
I currently also have ElkExperience (v1.0.0-15) enabled, and ElkFactions (v1.0.0-46) and Elkano's ItemDB (v2.1.1-60) installed but the latter two are disabled.