Elkano's BuffBars

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EBB provides groups of (mainly) statusbar style indicators to show (de)buffs currently affecting your char or some other units (focus, pet and target). For the player, it can also show indicators for temporary enchants placed on their weapons.

For over 20 years, EBB has been a mainstay for both long-term and returning players (at least some) and reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.

Two-in-One Download

For Classic WoW, the addon uses its older 2.x code base, for Mainline WoW (Retail and Forever) it is now based on Blizzard's AuraContainer; all in the same download file.

2.x based on UnitAura

Version 2.x was a total recode, initially based on the Ace2 framework, later ported to Ace3, which became necessary in order to support some of the longtime wanted and suggested features. It has served well for ~19 years (since June '07) and made it 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. 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.

Due to changes Blizzard made with WoW 4.x it's no longer possible to cancel buffs without the use of secure frames. EBB v2 thus limits cancelling of buffs to out-of-fight since using SecureAuraHeader would have required a major code restructuring. ~~This will be coming in a later version.~~

3.x based on AuraContainer

This is once again a complete artisanal rewrite, which became necessary due to Blizzard making auras secret in combat. This also gave me the push to include some features I already wanted but never included before. And you can cancel buffs in combat again.

Layouts can now be shared between groups, support multi-line/-column alignments, and give you way more options than before. But it can also just look the same as it used to.

What did suffer from the change of underlying technology are some of the filter options, as Blizzard has intentionally broken those.

And I haven't added localization to v3, yet. So most texts are in English besides a few strings reused from the game client.

Settings

The settings can be accessed via chat (/ebb), LDB icon, or simply via the game settings.

Other Infos

In order to get additional bar textures and fonts for EBB simply install e.g. SharedMedia which is available for download under https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/sharedmedia
If you have bug reports or feature request, create a ticket: https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/elkbuffbars/issues

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Posted Jan 28, 2011
long time EBB user... I've found that since cata I can't seem to right-click a buff line to remove the buff. Is there possibly some setting? Do other people have this issue, or is it possibly some bad addon interaction?

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Posted Jan 30, 2011
I can.

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Posted Jan 23, 2011
how do I get the minimistic setup? is there an option or do i make it manaully?

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Posted Jan 22, 2011
Hello,

I'm trying to establish a white list filter. But every time I log out, the buff/ debuff list from which to choose the filtered ones resets. The program "forgets" that it ever has seen those buffs/ debuffs. If I go to a battle ground, the list gets very long, after I log out and in again, all these registered buffs/ debuffs are gone.

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Posted Jan 22, 2011
I've tried what you say and it worked, when I made a new bar group and put all the same settings as the bugged one bar had everything worked perfectly. I am not quite sure but this might be cause of spells list it had, it had both spells in English and Russian, since I used these settings while I was playing on one of EU servers back in days...Although some other bars still has the same type of lists. Well anyway now everything is working great again. Thanks Elkano!

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Posted Jan 20, 2011
Hey there Elkano!
I've been using your lovely addon for some time now. Lately I'm having a problem with one of my bar-group. I'm able to use all of my old(pre cata) settings and all is good, but now when i've created a new group bar(i have set it to target to see some debuffs from my white list, just in case it could be important notice) EVERY time i get logged in to the game i have an anchor of that bar active and i have to disable it. I've transfered my config to another pc and things is ofcourse the same, just can't get rid of that things, please throw me a tip how to fix this up.

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Posted Jan 21, 2011
sounds strange... like some problem with saving the SVs...
do other changes or new bargroups also vanish next session?

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Posted Jan 21, 2011
No changes happens to any of my settings apart from an anchor appears to be enabled every time I login with my character, so I have to click on 'show anchor' mark to remove it all over and over and over again.

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Posted Jan 21, 2011
I meant if you change some settings for one of the existing groups or create a new group, will these be reverted next session, too?

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Posted Jan 19, 2011
Hi Elkano,

How do I get the icon back on the minimap? lmao!

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Posted Jan 17, 2011
Sorry for double post, I just had another suggestion. I would love to see an option to make the buffs and text clickthrough.

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Posted Jan 19, 2011
That has been in for quite some time now... shouldn't be that hard to find in the group's options either.

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Posted Jan 16, 2011
First of all let me say I love this addon.

Secondly, I would love to see some customization options added, to like make the buffs pop out when they are about to expire. Like they would become a lil bigger and have a shiny yellow border around them or something like that.

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Posted Jan 12, 2011
I don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but there seems to be a specific problem with the Beacon of Light buff tracking. If the spell is reapplied on the same target before expiring, the EBB timer dissapears instead of going back to full duration. This unfortunately makes it impossible to track at the moment, is there plans to fix this or is this another Blizz "update"?

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Posted Jan 12, 2011
since I don't do any special buff handling at all this is most likely another Blizzard bug...

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Posted Jan 14, 2011
Did you read the addon description? The author specifically put in there that it is a known issue.

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Posted Jan 11, 2011
for some reason i cant right click to dissable buff in combat... why? :<

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Posted Jan 11, 2011
same problem

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Posted Jan 10, 2011
Hello! Simple buff bars is great addon, really! But one thing is very uncomfortable - user can change only scale but not height and width. I am begging you to improve this deficit!

And one more thing: i cannot find buff tracker. E.g. paladin (prot spec)always need Righteous Fury, but after die sometimes i forget to use it. In this case buff tracker, that shows me that i have not one of important buffs, will be very useful/

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Posted Jan 10, 2011
Sorry about height and width - i am blind )

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