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 Oct 19, 2012I don't know if this is EBB or Blizzard, but when I am controlling a mob via the Klaxxi Augmentation "Master of Puppets," there are two buffs: one that is the augmentation, and one that says cancelling it will despawn your currently mind-controlled. When I attempt to cancel the one that says it can be cancelled, both buffs are cancelled.
Both buffs are named "Master of Puppets." The augmentation is http://wowdb.com/spells/127351 and the cancelable buff is http://wowdb.com/spells/127355.
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Posted Oct 20, 2012was caused by both having the same name; r170 will cancel by index instead so that's fixed :)
thanks for reporting
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Posted Oct 22, 2012Thanks for responding! :D
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Posted Oct 25, 2012I've had EBB broker'd for some time. Not sure how it's done - might be built into EBB, might be because I use Fubar2Broker. Maybe you just need to go into your display and enable EBB. I'm using ChocolateBar, but your display shouldn't matter. Good luck!
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Posted Oct 17, 2012Will there be data broker integration anytime with this mod? Would be nice to be able to access the config menu from somewhere other than the mininmap/command line.
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Posted Oct 13, 2012In the next update as a feature suggestion can you implement variables for the group name titlebar.. for example typing Name: $target would display Name: TargetsCharacterName..? That would make things a little more in-line with what each groups purpose is. :) Love EBB, Keep it up!!
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Posted Oct 2, 2012Hey, not sure if anybody else is experiencing this, but it seems after every boss fight in a dungeon, my default blizzard buff frame pops back up, and i have to "check/uncheck" the hide option again to get rid of it, but it keeps popping back up. Is this a known issue?
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Posted Oct 3, 2012EBB's code to show/hide these frames is only called when the player enteres the world (eg loading, changing continent, entering instance, ...) or the settings change. Also it doesn't happen for me.
So my guess would be that any of your other addons (eg unit frames) could be the reason for this.
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Posted Oct 3, 2012With WoW 4.x Blizzard changed buff canceling to be a secure action that can only be done via special frames. These frames can't be moved around by normal code during combat though and thus aren't usable for addons like EBB.
Blizzard also provided a tool that would handle moving the frames but it puts hard limitations on filtering/sorting possible and also has some nasty buffs.
If you really do need to cancel buffs during combat, the best way around this are macros or addons allowing you to setup buttons for canceling specific buffs.
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Posted Oct 1, 2012Hey there!
I've been having an issue with this addon for a long time now and I was wondering if I could get some insight into this. As a PvPer I need to remove buffs from myself sometimes such as flags, however If I'm in combat I am unable to remove buffs. As soon as I'm out of combat I'm able to right click and remove buffs again.
Is there any way to fix this? The mod would be perfect otherwise!
Thanks in advance!
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Posted Sep 19, 2012Hi!
It seems this should be a working version (r169)?
I had this addon before 5.0.4 patch, but I disbaled the addon. Now I tried to install it once more, but it seems I lost all the bar layouts. Is this the case, we all need to set bars layout now again?
Don't see config minimap button now, can not see default buffs with newly created bar, config window gets widened each time I hit the Show Anchor.
However when I try to create more groups they seemed to remeber my old group names and their settings, but not their positions and size.
I don't see any global setting for scale that would be a nice feature if possible.
Tried mayn Reloadui, relog, but none of the buffs/debuffs showed up, and after each relog the 4 bars are vanished.
Thank you
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Posted Oct 30, 2012It seems some previous version ruined saved variables lua file and I was unable to use it since then.
Solution was using r169 version aftwer I deleted the lua file in wtf directory and loaded an old backup one from Cataclysm time.
With this I kept all the saved bars/setting/positions/filters.
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Posted Sep 10, 2012Just wanted to say thank you!!!!! I have been a user of this mod since it came out and was sorely disappointed when I read that there would be no update for this patch. I, for one, appreciate you actually putting it out anyways. I spent hours looking for a replacement for this one and nothing works as well with my UI.
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Posted Sep 11, 2012Thanks! it was actually Tukui that was messing with it though >_>
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Posted Sep 6, 2012So they're back! And working great. My only problem is the default blizzard buffs are still there and i have no idea how to get rid of them >_>
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Posted Sep 10, 2012Try going into the default Blizzard options and turning off the consolidate buffs. They were still showing for me until I unchecked this option.
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Posted Sep 6, 2012Every time I attack, the following error comes up on lines 1210, 1216,1226, 1763, 1774, 1785, 1795, 1960
Message: ElkBuffBars\ElkBuffBars-r169.lua:1210: attempt to index field "?" (a nil value)
Time: 09/06/12 11:57:40
Count: 6
Stack: ...\AddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\Dewdrop-2.0\Dewdrop-2.0.lua:1875: in function <...\AddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\Dewdrop-2.0\Dewdrop-2.0.lua:1843>
...\AddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\Dewdrop-2.0\Dewdrop-2.0.lua:1908: in function `Refresh'
...\AddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\Dewdrop-2.0\Dewdrop-2.0.lua:3471: in function <...\AddOns\ElkBuffBars\libs\Dewdrop-2.0\Dewdrop-2.0.lua:3469>
Locals: <none>
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Posted Sep 6, 2012Did you delete a group or change a profile before this started to happen?
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Posted Sep 6, 2012Removed TENCH.
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Posted Sep 6, 2012Did it still error after reloading? Even though deleting a group should also remove the corresponding options it seems like they somehow stuck around in DewDrop but a relog should fix that.