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 Mar 27, 2012
Love this add on. I love that i can set new groups and show what I want only for that group. I love the customization options. I wish there was a better interface to work with though. I found out that the only way I can bring up the anchor for group 3 is by typing /ebb config then going into group 3 and showing the anchor then hitting escape then moving it around then close the anchor then test it on a dummy then if it was off I had to repeat all of that to move it a centimeter. Anyways still love this mod and it works great.

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Posted Mar 14, 2012
"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."

When is this later version? This is a huge problem for me. I don't want to type: "/cancelaura blabla" infight...

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Posted Dec 16, 2011
Hi,

Great addon.

But I have one question. Is it possible for you to add an option to show the timers of the buffs/debuffs in fractions of a second? like 12,50 sec or something like that?

They are fights (like Ultraxion) where I want to push the button under 1 second...and I don't have to time it in my head.

Thanks

Duro

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Posted Dec 3, 2011
Quote from herrfisk »

Please god, give this one an update! :(

:) Ive updated the .toc and it works fine, but yes please Elkano, an official update would be nice - ive used this on all my toons, it seems like forever - couldn't live without it :)

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Posted Dec 3, 2011
It has always been my policy not to do TOC-push only "updates" and sadly I still didn't have time to get much work done with EBB3. So until there is something broken, don't expect an update, "load out of date addons" still does the trick.

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Posted Nov 14, 2011
I'm having a problem where I can't right click a buff on the buff bar to cancel a buff while in combat. It works fine once a break combat. This becomes a problem when I want to break out of ice block early or drop righteous fury on my pally so the off tank can grab a boss.

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Posted Nov 19, 2011
If you usually right-click your buff to remove it, you can use a simply macro to do that.

#showtooltip Ice Block

/cancelaura Ice Block

/cast Ice Block

First click cast Ice Block, second click remove it. Good game.

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Posted Nov 22, 2011
Thanks man, this will def help.

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Posted Nov 8, 2011
Please god, give this one an update! :(

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Posted Oct 27, 2011
I'm using it to display a list of buffs, but only the icons.

Any way i can make it show horizontaly ?

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Posted Nov 7, 2011
Sadly that's exactly what I wanted to do as well. There is a mod that does this, but it hasn't been maintained in a year. I haven't been able to find a mod that will manage buffs & debuffs horizontally. =(

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Posted Oct 8, 2011
M EBB and quartz are out of date, so naturally i deleted them and then added the latest ones.... which are still coming up out of date.

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Posted Oct 4, 2011
Hi,
Thank you for this addon. I find it very usefull and design.
I have a problem : I just started WoW again (no will...) and I can do as before.
I want the DEBUFF bar to be "anchored" to the BUFF bar, just after it. I don't find this option. Now the DEBUFF bar can be moved freely.

How can I do that ?
PS : please excuse mistakes, I am French.

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Posted Sep 28, 2011
Interface\AddOns\ElkBuffBars\EBB_Bar.lua:625: attempt to call method 'FormatDurationCondensed' (a nil value)
Count: 99

Call Stack:
...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:369: in function <...ddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\AceEvent-2.0\AceEvent-2.0.lua:345>

This is the current error on the 4.3 PTR

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Posted Sep 25, 2011
Is it possible to add a spell that EBB doesn't have? Find Weakness from the Rogue Subtlety tree isn't showing up at all. It should be listed under debuffs.

Thanks!

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Posted Sep 20, 2011
I haven't bothered testing it much, but it works for me with no LUA errors (that pop up at least). Anchors still appear, just without the annoying bar.

Removing "Blessing of Demonstration"
- Delete line #301 :: "table_insert(data, DATA_DEMO)"

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Posted Sep 12, 2011
Heyho,
I wonder if it is possible to filter by remaining time instead of maximal time of a buff. It would be nice, since i dont care about the buff-time of 15 minutes-remaining or longer buffs. But once their duration drops below an encounter-duration i do care. So i can created a buffbar with Long and notimebuffs (without timer) and one with shortbuffs with timer.
Love this addon :) - thanks for sharing your work.

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Posted Sep 12, 2011
I'm using this addon on my shaman, and I'm having one problem. i cant right click the temporary weapon enchants away. I have to show the original buff bar (Blizzard one) to click them away. I've tried using macros to take them off but none work anymore.

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Posted Sep 11, 2011
One thing that would allow me to use this addon almost exclusively for timers is the ability to track traps, especially freezing trap: primed and trapped. I find I use another addon that tracks everything this one will but only for the trap feature. Thx. I am trying to hack it myself...

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Posted Aug 30, 2011
is there any possibility to add consecration as a buff icon since using Shadowed it removes the default cons tracker icon that is usually below the default portrait

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